This moving collection of photographs taken by Krzysztof Miller could be called "A Report from Hell". Miller, a gifted photoreporter, with a famous name and impressive achievements, last April visited three refugees camps in Zair, situated to the south of Kisangani, and brought with him these terrifying pictures.

This brings in bitter words of Zofia Na"lkowska: "people created this for people". This also reminds us about photographs from concentration camps, gulags and enumerous places all over the world built especially to torture human beings. Only the Miller's artistry and his absolute sensitivity have added to these photos symbolic depth and value. There is tragedy of loneliness and hopelessness in the human skeletons, and the last traces of life, which is never to be saved.

The starving children and adults we can see in the photographs are not moving; they seem to belong to a different world. Yet, there is something that gives evidence for they are still alive and look for our help - it is their eyes, their facial expressions, their silence and dispair. Our help! How much of our cruel and offensive irony carries one of the Miller's photoghraphs: the one with children's skeletons passing away to a box named UNHCR, United Nations High Commisioner of Refugies. This is one of the way we try to use to silence the conscience loaded with our wrongdoings.

The collection of Krzysztof Miller's pictures is one of the greatest achievements in modern photography.

[ Ryszard Kapuscinski - May 19,1997]