Crying Meri: Documenting Extreme Gender Violence in Papua New Guinea' launches Kickstarter campaign

When FotoEvidence first exhibited photographer Vlad Sokhin's 'Crying Meri’, they had no idea how fast and deep would be its impact. Within months, the work was picked up by gender activists working for the United Nations, Amnesty Australia Pacific, and Child Fund Australia for campaigns to expose the extraordinary violence against women in Papua New Guinea (PNG). International attention and a public outcry by concerned activists brought a response by the government, which passed the nation’s first law prohibiting domestic violence late last year. This is a first step in a long process of change that needs to happen in PNG to protect women from violence. FotoEvidence and Vlad Sokhin have launched a Kickstarter campaign to create a publish ‘Crying Meri’ and create a documentary record of gender violence in PNG.