Jan Møller Hansen
Living in fear (Series)
DESCRIPTION
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. Ethnic cleansing, killings, rapes, hunger and human rights atrocities and violations are the order of the day. 2 million people have fled South Sudan to neighboring countries, and another 2 million people are internally displaced in the country. The economy is in ruin and the country corrupted by warlords and militias.
Armed violence is one of the major threats to the people of South Sudan. Conservative estimates say that more than 3 million weapons are in circulation in the country. The number could be much higher. Nobody knows.
Every year thousands of South Sudanese get killed or injured by gunshots and unexploded remnants of war.
AUTHOR
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
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