Vlad Sokhin

Warm Waters featured on Lens Culture

Images from Kiribati that are part of my long-term ongoing project “Warm Waters” about climate change in the Pacific are featured on Lens Culture.

These images will be exhibited during Angkor photo festival in Siem Reap, Cambodia in December 2015.

Violence, Almost Unspeakable, Made Visible

Laurence Cornet from Blink asked me a few questions about working on human rights projects and collaborating with the UN and NGOs:

Violence, Almost Unspeakable, Made Visible

Photo-essay from Nauru and Manus Island on Meduza

A story on how the Australian Government treating asylum seekers and refugees on Manus Island (PNG) and in Nauru, published on Meduza Project (in Russian) The photos also show victims of the police brutality in other parts of Papua New Guinea, the country were refugees are supposed to be resettled permanently.

Cargo Cults of Melanesia in July issue of Portuguese travel magazine “Volta ao Mundo”.

Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu

On March 13th and 14th 2015, severe tropical cyclone Pam tore through the South Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu with destructive winds of up to 250 kilometres p/hour that flattened homes, destroyed schools and people gardens and left large areas of the country completely defoliated. The country’s 250,000 people are still facing unprecedented devastation.

Below is a short video story of James, who lost his house and his school. I’ve produced it for ChildFund and Live&Learn earlier this year. You can help James and other children of Vanuatu to rebuild the schools by donating to ChildFund:

Publication on RYOT about Witch hunting

iPad version of “Crying Meri” book released

Happy to announce the iPad version of “Crying Meri” book is available on the Apple iBooks store.

Published by FotoEvidence, Crying Meri is a monumental work documenting violence against women in Papua New Guinea. Images from the work were used in public education campaigns by the United Nations, Amnesty International, Child Fund Australia and others. The photographs capture both the beauty of PNG and terrifying plight of women who face danger in the home, danger on the streets and the danger of being accused of sorcery.

The iPad version of the book has 151 pages and contains 124 colour images, an introduction by Jo Chandler, foreword by Christina Saunders and interview with Vlad Sokhin. It also features a short multimedia film about one of the survivors of sorcery-related violence Dini Korul, that was produced by duckrabbit.

iPad version of Crying Meri book is available in Apple  store for $12.99

This book is available for download with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device, and with iTunes on your computer. The book can be read with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device.

Crying Meri book on Amazon

Here we go, “Crying Meri” book, published by FotoEvidence earlier this year is available on  now.

You can read more about the book and see the project’s gallery on my web-site.

Guavas and Bananas on ABC Australia

“Guavas and Bananas” multimedia is featured by ABC News Australia and Radio Australia “Pacific Beat”

Police brutality in PNG in BLUEFRAMEJOURNAL

A photo and a story about covering police brutality in Papua New Guinea in BLUEFRAMEJOURNAL, a new wonderful project of my friends Oksana Yushko and Arthur Bondar.

http://blueframejournal.tumblr.com