An African country that's the 11th largest in the world also shares its border with a staggering nine other countries.

Public boats, with ample sleeping quarters, plied the Congo until the government of the DRC let them fall into disrepair. Now river traffic consists largely of barges (top) and pirogues (center).

On a four-week shoot that ambitiously took in the four corners of the country, from the mouth of the Congo river to its heart and on to the Kivus and Katanga, logistics was our greatest challenge.

While the Nile is the longest and probably the most famous river in Africa, it is certainly not the deepest. This is because the Congo River is the deepest in the world, reaching depths of up to ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the second-largest country in Africa and the 11th-largest in the world by land area.