Despite Everything, Standing Proud: Portraits of the South Sudanese

In March, I went to South Sudan with the NGO, Tearfund, to document the crisis. I’d been warned about what to expect from a number of photographers. Some had taken me to one side, telling me in hushed tones that famine is one of the hardest things to witness, and cautioned that I should mentally prepare for what I was about to see. Others warned me not to be ‘disappointed’ if I didn’t see the emaciated bodies and scenes from the well-documented famines from the end of the last century. ‘These days it’s more complex, hunger is harder to see, the effects are hidden away.’