Renowned photographer Tom Craig has been nominated three times for British Magazine photographer of the year. Dan Crowe is the founder of blazingword.com, the literary editor of Another Magazine, and the author of How I Write: The Secret Lives of Authors (Rizzoli).
"In the collection Writing On the Edge, fourteen esteemed writers
chronicle their travels with MSF teams through countries in crisis.
Accompanied by Tom Craig's photographs, Martin Amis, Tracy
Chevalier, Daniel Day Lewis and others take readers into rarely
seen reaches of Colombia, Burundi, Gaza, Uzbekistan, Cambodia,
Sierra Leone, Uganda, and elsewhere." The Huffington Post
"These art works, in their artistry and complexity of thought,
start conversations, whereas most non-professional images and texts
have the more straightforward task of delivering "subjectified"
information. This is why a book like Writing on the Edge: Great
Contemporary Writers on the Front Line of Crisis, which was created
by photographer Tom Craig in conjunction with Médecins Sans
Frontières, is an important anthology." The Last Magazine
"An important book with an unblinking view of global issues,
Writing on the Edge features fourteen essays that take the reader
on a harrowing tour of countries in crisis...These powerful
stories, accompanied by Tom Craig's moving photographs make an
impact on the reader that will not soon be forgotten."
PhotographyBlog.com "So it is with the stories and photos here
which take the reader into some of the world's most persistent
agony zones... To compile this panorama of suffering, photographer
Tom Craig took with him some of the world's most eloquent writers
and asked each to put into words the specific situations his photos
could only hint at... Craig's 100 color pictures are both riveting
and heartbreaking.. The spotlight is always on the downtrodden. In
the end, the book suggests, the only sure victory is in the trying,
in not turning away." Foreword
"Of course, reporting thusly is only the beginning, albeit an
important one, as we cannot attempt to fix that which the world
cannot or does not want to see. And from the perspective of these
writers and researchers, there are few people or organizations that
have much, beyond a sense of service, to gain in revealing these
often intentionally obscured sights. But merely for that alone, we
should be grateful for those who do." BlogOnBooks.com
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