Entry Title: " The new devastated country: South Sudan"
Name: Fabio Bucciarelli, Italy
Category: Professional, War/Conflict


Entry Description: When South Sudan became an independent country in July 2011, many hoped that Sudan's bloody civil war would finally be resolved. Sudan has seen decades of conflict between the Sudanese central government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), a rebel force based in the the south.

The fledgling South Sudan, a ward of the international community despite its oil revenues, immediately faced challenges: millions of displaced people hoping to return home, 50 years of neglected infrastructure, and massive food shortages. Add to that a severe malarial epidemic, an ongoing showdown with Khartoum, and continuing violence in nine of its 10 states, and it's no surprise South Sudan has become what many have dubbed the world's first pre-failed state.

Fabio Bucciarelli (b.1980, Italy) received the MS in Communication Engineering in 2006 from Politecnico of Turin. He also attended Universidad Politecnica of Valencia, where he specialized in digital imaging. From 2009 he devoted himself entirely to photography and started working as staff photographer for the agency LaPresse/Ap. He won several international awards and his photos are published by Sten, The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Vanity Fair, Internazionale, La Repubblica, PBS-Frontile, Le Monde, L’Espresso among other. Recently he has also began working as journalist. In 2012 he wrote his first book 'The Smell of the War' on the Libyan conflict. He feels the urgency to tell the story of people who are rendered powerless and to provide unbiased information focused on human rights. He covered conflicts, environmental disasters and social issues in Europe, Southeast Asia and Meddle East. He is represented by LUZphoto Agency.