People nominee

South Sudan is the youngest nation in the world and is only 6 years old. But the country and its people are torn apart by conflict and war. Armed violence is one of the major threats to the people of South Sudan. There are more than 3 millions weapons in circulation in the country. Every year thousands of South Sudanese get killed or injured by gunshots and unexploded remnants of war.

The Human Factory in the capital Juba makes new articifial legs for children and adults, who have lost their legs due to gunshots, mines or other explosive remnants of war. The intake of patients to the Human Factory has dropped in recent years, because it is too dangerous to travel from the various parts of the country into the capital.

Jan Møller Hansen (b. 1964) is a self-taught photographer, who works with visual story telling and social documentary. He has undertaken documentary photography work in Bangladesh, Nepal and South Sudan, where he lived and worked as a senior diplomat, and development/humanitarian aid specialist.

Jan Møller Hansen has won first and second prices for his documentary and photojournalistic work in the International Photographer Awards, La Grande Photography Awards, Fine Art Photography Awards, Monochrome Photography Awards, Neutral Density Photography Awards, Monovisions and other competitions. In 2015, he published the book ”Images of Nepal”, Jagadamba Press, and was recognised as the IPA People Photographer of the Year 2015.

His visual stories and documentary photography work focus on the lives and conditions of poor, marginalised and stigmatised people, living with conflict, displacement, insecurity, injustice, inequality and corruption. All his photography projects share a profound interest in human rights, dignity and the belief that everyone has the right to be recognised as a human being, regardless of social background, family relations, or