LONDON , England ( CNN ) -- Fashion photographer Rankin took time out from his career to take powerful pictures of people from Congo . One of Rankin 's images . He visited a refugee camp with the charity Oxfam and his work is now being exhibited in London . The photos are posed like a fashion shoot and different to the regular images coming out of conflict zones . `` I wanted to make the people who saw the photos look at the people and see them as people , not see them as victims , '' Rankin told CNN . Oxfam says 10 million people have died in the last 10 years in the Democratic Republic Of Congo . In the last few weeks , a fragile cease-fire has broken down . The conflict is complicated by outside forces and a variety of armed groups fighting both the government and each other . Rankin said the people he photographed just `` wanted the thing to stop . ''
Fashion also exhibits portraits of refugees in DR Congo . Rankin said ` ` I want people to see them as people , not refugees .