PNG Human Rights Film Festival , organised by the United Nations, started this week in Port Moresby. Happy to see two of my films included there:
– GUAVAS AND BANANAS: Living Gay in PNG – a short video produced in collaboration with Roman Kalyakin about life of gay and transgender people in Hanuabada village.
– BIBIANE’S STORY – another short video produced for The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ. It’s a story of an old woman Bibiane, who suffered in isolation with cataract blindness.
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“The National” newspaper of Papua New Guinea featured “Crying Meri” book.
Amazing Alison Stieven-Taylor wrote “Crying Meri” book review for L’Oiel de la Photographie.
The book was just published by FotoEvidence and available for on-line orders here: http://www.fotoevidence.com/pre-order-crying-meri
http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/2014/09/17/interview/26153/vlad-sokhin-crying-meri-violence-against-women-in-papua-new-guinea
“Crying Meri” book signing at Visa Pour L’Image festival in Perpignan, France. Photo by Elena Chernyshova