LIVING IN CRISIS

Since the conflict started inside the world’s youngest country in December 2013, South Sudanese has suffered from human insecurity, food shortage, and being internally displaced throughout the country.

Ethical killing between Nuer and Dinka from the government led force has let over 38,800 hundreds of internally displaced persons (IDPs) which are now sheltering at the UN protection of civilian (PoC) site in Juba, South Sudan since October 2016, however thousands of civilians remain outside of UN PoC site across the country. The number of IDPs in South Sudan continues to rise, and has now reached an all-time high of 1.87 million.

This is a story documenting the daily lives of IDPs and civilians during this on going crisis.

Jecan Chiu

Jecan Chiu is based in Amsterdam, but born and raised in Hong Kong and grew up in Canada with a focus in covering Middle East and Africa stories.

He first started photography in 2007 with a traditional film camera, together developing and processing his own black and white film. Since then he have witnessed Arab Spring in Egypt back in 2011, and recently documented the internal displaced people's lives in South Sudan. Jecan has demonstrated a particular interest in the affects and aftermath of conflict, humanitarian and social issues.