The Photographer (comics)

The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders (Le Photographe)
The cover of the American edition
Date	2006
Page count	288 pages
Publisher	Dupuis
Creative team
Writers	Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre
Artists	Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre
Colorists	Frédéric Lemercier [fr]
Original publication
Issues	3
Date of publication	2003–2006
Translation
Publisher	First Second Books
Date	2009
ISBN	1-59643-375-2
Translator	Alexis Siegel

The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders is a nonfiction graphic novel by Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre, and Frédéric Lemercier [fr].^[1][2] The Photographer tells the true story of Didier Lefèvre, a French photojournalist, who accompanied a Médecins Sans Frontières mission during the height of the Soviet–Afghan War in 1986.^[3] The book interweaves Lefèvre's black-and-white photographs and Guibert's illustrations—combined with captions and word balloons—to create the narrative.

First published by Dupuis in three volumes from 2003 through 2006,^[4] The Photographer sold 250,000 copies in France and won the Essentials of Angoulême award in 2007. It has been translated from the original French into 11 languages. First Second published the English edition in 2009.