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Displaced by fighting, thousands of people are living in caves...
Reportage by Getty Images TumblrDisplaced by fighting, thousands of people are living in caves in the Marra Mountains of Sudan’s Darfur region. Adriane Ohanesian, a Reportage Emerging Talent photographer, talked with the website Nuba Reports about her visit to Darfur last year:
It is nearly impossible to access Darfur. It took over two years of speaking with people and trying to make the right connections. At the end of the day, the most important aspect of planning the expedition was to make sure that it was safe and that we had a secure route into and back out of the rebel-controlled areas in the mountains …. I think that what we did last year would be impossible now. In the last month or so the fighting between the government and the rebels has intensified, and the bombing has been overwhelming. From what I understand, beginning in January, the mountains are now surrounded by government forces, so accessing the mountains again would be extremely difficult and dangerous.
Read more of the interview at Nuba Reports.
Another image in this series, of a boy burned in a government bomb attack, received the 2nd-place prize in the World Press Photo Contemporary Issues category this year.
