Above: The Forgotten Mountains of Sudan, by Adriane Ohanesian, 2015. Adriane Ohanesian was in the mountains of central Darfur when she heard about a boy in the nearby village of Burgu who had suffered severe burns after Sudanese government forces dropped a bomb outside his house two weeks earlier. The desperately sad image she took soon after of seven-year-old Adam Abdel, sitting with ravaged head bowed in his mud-hut home, is included in The Forgotten Mountains of Sudan series she shot in February last year. The image is part of the World Press Photo Exhibition coming to Auckland in July, which features the winning entries in a prestigious competition to find the most arresting and informative images taken in the past year. In 2010, Ohanesian, 29, moved from New York to cover South Sudan’s brutal civil conflict for Reuters. An estimated three million people have been displaced, and nearly half a million lives lost, in the government’s 12-year war against rebel groups. “You are working daily in 45- to 50-degree heat, and I was constantly ill,” she recalls. “You have to explain over and over again what your role is and what you’re doing there — people are suspicious of foreigners ...
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