Eye witnessCamille Lepage: A brilliant career cut shortThe 26-year-old French photographer Camille Lepage had begun to establish herself as a rising star in a ferociously competitive industry when she was caught up in a deadly shoot-out between rival militia in the Central African Republic, where she had spent recent months chronicling the impoverished country's sectarian bloodletting and its impact on the civilian population.
Camille Lepage on assignment in Damara, 70 km north of Bangui, February 21, 2014. (AFP Photo/Fred Dufour)
Follow @AFPblogs Follow @freddufour_afpBy Fred DufourPARIS, 14 May, 2014 -- I took this picture of Camille Lepage in February in Damara, 70 kilometres north of Bangui. It was a tough day. We’d gone looking for members of the anti-balaka militia -- mainly Christian fighting groups who’d clashed violently with Chadian soldiers a few days earlier.
On the way, we went through a multitude of checkpoints and the atmosphere was very tense. Militiamen, armed with grenades, Kalashnikovs and rocket-launchers were hostile to our presence. It was, perhaps, the same sort of situation that proved fatal for Camille, three months later.
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