Maison sans fenêtres #[nn]

Published by La Boîte à Bulles in 2018 in partnership with Médecins Sans Frontières, Maison sans fenêtres — Enfances meurtries en Centrafrique is a striking graphic work by Marc Ellison and Didier Kassaï that bears witness to the lives of children caught in crisis in the Central African Republic. The cover itself is arresting: a sweeping, earthy scene of a crowded open-air mining site where dozens of figures dig and labor across a vast, scarred landscape, while in the foreground a seated man in a red floral shirt sketches — the artist himself seemingly embedded in the scene he is documenting. It's a powerful visual statement about bearing witness through art, and at 18,00 EUR it offers both a human rights document and a showcase for Kassaï's richly detailed, compassionate draftsmanship.