A Fortunate Man
The Story of a Country Doctor
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Sassall is a fortunate man - his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the line between his life and his work is happily blurred.
In A Fortunate Man, Berger's text and the photography of Jean Mohr reveal with extraordinary intensity the life of a remarkable man. It is a portrait of one selfless individual and the rural community for which he became the hub. Drawing on psychology, biography and medicine A Fortunate Man is a portrait... more
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Gavin Francis Berger was an astonishingly skilled and observant witness of anything he turned his gaze onto. (Source)
Dan Richards So the landscape is almost virgin and primordial, but at the same time, you get this very forward-thinking, almost revolutionary, doctor John Sassall. He’s kind of as much an alchemist as he is a doctor. It’s almost a nature documentary, this little microcosm of the country doctor as viewed through the lens of John Berger. (Source)
Tom Overton It’s about a country GP, he had this extremely intimate relationship with the people around him, but also had to be extremely distant. (Source)
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