I wrote about this multi-media project a couple of month ago for the first time. This feature film, you can see here, is only the starting point of the project MSF (Doctors without borders) started at the end of last year. The photography of Cedric Gerbehaye is mainly featured here and creates a powerful view on the situation in DR Congo. Even when some things might be different, when it comes to leaders of rebel troops and other political aspects, the situation for ordinary people on a ground level consists the same. Congo has been in a crisis for years and sadly it also seems like that it will be for the next years too. The war in eastern Congo has conducted the largest death toll of any war since World War II, most of the people not dying because of bullets, but because of the consequences of the war.

When i spent time in Eastern Congo earlier this year, one impression i took with me is the feel of a silent war, a war that you don’t see directly in cases like gunfire, even when you see more weapons than you could count. And you see that most of the people try to create a normal life inside of a constant state of crisis, even when this ‘normal life’ could get destroyed every day.

The hope for the people in Congo is to find peace at some point, and in the meanwhile survive, even under badest conditions in the refugee camps. And this could not happen without awareness for what is going on down there, because awareness might not create a change of the overriding situation, but it could help to get enough support down there that organizations like MSF or UNHCR could help the people to survive.

Condition? Critical.