The photo album "Out of Africa" is the famous writer and reporter's photographic debut...
The photo album Out of Africa is the famous writer and reporter's photographic debut. The photographs collected in this album are the fruits of his journeys into the depths of the African continent. Kapuściński has travelled to Africa numerous times since his first visit in 1957. He lived and worked there for many years as correspondent of the Polish Press Agency (PAP). However, he avoided official routes and much preferred to travel through the desert with the nomads who inhabited it, or visit the peasants of the tropical savannah. He observed their lives first hand, which were characterised by tribulation and struggle, but which they succeeded in lending a tremendous dignity and cheerfulness.
Kapuściński's photographs testify to his fascination with the qualities that make Africa so different from his own world, his wish to comprehend these and to bring others closer to the extraordinary reality of the continent. The album Out of Africa is, like Heban, the author's personal portrait of Africa.
Ryszard Kapuściński (b. 1932) is the most outstanding writer of all Polish reporters, and the best reporter of all Polish writers.
- Ryszard Kapuściński
Out of Africa / Z Afryki
Wydawnictwo Buffi, Bielsko-Biała 2000
© Ryszard Kapuściński
© Buffi
247 x 307, 128 pages, illustrated, hardcover
ISBN 83-906554-9-7
