Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine Jovan A. Banks both shot and found by

both shot and found by the artist-each page claustrophobically framed by collaged imagery of stalagmites and stalactites

Less acknowledged

has no desire to involve himself yet again in the intrigues of the powerful

The image of Anubis

The doctor

Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine Jovan A. Banks both shot and found byIn the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Chinese people suffered what may have been the worst famine in history. Over thirty million perished in a grain shortage brought on not by flood, drought, or infestation, but by the insanely irresponsible dictates of Chairman Mao Ze dong's "Great Leap Forward," an attempt at utopian engineering gone horribly wrong. Journalist Jasper Becker conducted hundreds of interviews and spent years immersed in painstaking