Photo Exhibition @ The 1961 Gallery
In a few weeks The 1961 gallery in Siem Reap, Cambodia will officially launch an exhibition of photographs taken during my time in Sudan. A description of the work is below with official details to follow soon! Big thanks to everyone who made this possible! In 2010, I traveled to South Sudan to work with...
Postcard from Sudan: Rebirth of a nation
By Heather Stilwell In many ways, this tiny classroom was just like any other: rows of young students looking up at their teacher, the day’s lesson displayed on the dusty chalkboard overhead. But this day was not about grammar or arithmetic. It was about the long fight for freedom. In South Sudan, it is rarely...
Independence Day
Happy Independence Day to the world’s newest country, the Republic of South Sudan. To show a bit of the area, below is a short collection of video clips I took throughout South Sudan and in parts near the North-South border. You might wonder why I seem completely unable to hold a camera straight, but much...
Understanding Conflict
Leading up to Sudan’s referendum in January, I traveled back to the Kauda radio station in the Nuba Mountains to help lead a workshop on reporting in times of conflict. Over three days of dissecting the local context and history with journalists, we discussed ways they could report to promote peace. But as much as...
Violence in Sudan
In my last post, I wrote about my friend and former colleague Musa John and described a brief period of his life in the Nuba Mountain’s of Sudan. I purposely kept the post short because I wanted to allow anyone reading the chance to gradually get to know the people and places that I have...
