Documenting South Sudan's forgotten civil war: Adriane Ohanesian

Photojournalist Adriane Ohanesian was recognized with the 2016 Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award for her body of work, a large portion of which focuses on capturing scenes from the region around Sudan and Darfur. This photo from 2015 shows the Sudan Liberation Army led by Abdul Wahid (SLA-AW) climbing towards the front lines in the last rebel-held territory in Central Darfur.

"My photographs document what I've seen in isolated areas of the world," said Ohanesian. "I hope the people I photograph feel that these photos communicate their circumstances to the outside world. It takes a massive amount of trust on the part of my subjects to know that I'm accurately representing them and their story.”

Hundreds of women and children were living in a cave in central Darfur in 2015 after having fled the fighting. This shot is an astounding representation of how Ohanesian's "perceptive, compassionate eye offers an extraordinarily personal glimpse into places the global community may not otherwise see," the jury said.

Taken in 2014 in Mogadishu, Somalia, this image shows men arrested by Somali National Intelligence on suspicion of being members of Al-Shabaab's assassination and security group, Amniyat, during a cordon and search operation.

Central Darfur has seen years of civil war, which led these women and children to live in a cave after Sudanese government forces began bombing inside rebel-held territory in Central Darfur. Here, they sit outside of the cave in a 2015 photo.

The freelance US photographer has gone to great lengths to snap front-line photos from a nearly forgotten civil war, winning several awards along the way, all while remaining modest: "At the end of the day it's not about me; it's about the lives of the people in the pictures."