Crying Meri Archives - Vlad Sokhin

Crying Meri web-doc won Prix AFD Best Web Documentary 2015

January 13, 2016

Happy to share great news!

Last night web-doc Crying Meri (www.cryingmeri.com) received Prix Photo AFD Best Web Documentary 2015! Huge thanks to AFD and Nikon France for the prize, to my agencies COSMOS, PANOS and LAIF and especially to COSMOS’s director Annie Boulat for giving a speech for me the last night at the award ceremony in Paris, to Ben Chesterton and Duckrabbit, whose video is part of Crying Meri web-site, to Svetlana and David from the FotoEvidence, who published Crying Meri book (check it out on their web-site), to my assistant Harry Virtanen and all my friends who keep supporting me and my work!

Link: http://www.afd.fr/home/presse-afd/communiques?actuCtnId=135747

Violence, Almost Unspeakable, Made Visible

October 20, 2015

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

Crying Meri in Grazia magazine, UK.

July 1, 2015

Crying Meri book review in New Zealand Pro Photographer magazine.

February 12, 2015

The book is published by FotoEvidence and available for sale here: http://www.fotoevidence.com/crying-meri

iPad version of “Crying Meri” book released

November 23, 2014

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.