A brutal, formally restrained photobook on the 1994 Rwandan genocide, The Silence brings together Gilles Peress’s black-and-white photographs with a chronology and legal-historical material by Alison Des Forges.

It is not arranged to soften or narrativise catastrophe for the reader; the effect is closer to evidence than reportage, assembling fragments of aftermath, witness, and institutional failure into something stark and hard to shake.

Magnum describes the work as tracing the horror of the genocide, while MoMA exhibited the photographs the same year the book appeared. 

This book was issued in 1995 as a paperback original, and it comes with the accompanying booklet/slip. It is in great condition.