Ghosts By Daylight (2011)
“First it was Bruno’s back – twenty years of hauling a camera, sleeping on floors and general abuse. Then it seemed his entire immune system seemed to cave in. Bouts of African malaria came back. Once, in Abidjan, he had a crisis during the coup d’état. It was curfew and no doctor could get to his house. So he lay in bed alone, in his sarong, sweating and freezing, sweating and freezing, with a makeshift drip hooked up to him. He says he does not remember drinking water, or eating, or getting up... to go to the bathroom. Someone came and took a photograph of him which I still have somewhere – lying in a bed of sheets soaked with sweat, his fever rising, his head damp and his limbs splayed. I hated that photograph.
Once, we took a taxi together to a depressing hospital outside of Paris to check him in when he felt another bout of malaria was coming. He asked me to leave him there, to go home, to take care of the baby, because he felt that he had to do it alone. We took pictures of the two of us in a photo booth downstairs in the hospital before the nurses took him away.MoreLess
Once, we took a taxi together to a depressing hospital outside of Paris to check him in when he felt another bout of malaria was coming. He asked me to leave him there, to go home, to take care of the baby, because he felt that he had to do it alone. We took pictures of the two of us in a photo booth downstairs in the hospital before the nurses took him away.MoreLess
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