A GLANCE ON THE NEW WORLDGILES CLARKE
Sudan Under Siege

The Sudan civil war, which erupted on the streets of Khartoum in April 2023, began following a spiraling power struggle between the Sudanese Army and a powerful paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Following the overthrow & retreat of the RSF from the capital in late March 2025, Khartoum was left in complete ruin, with tens of thousands dead and almost entirely emptied of its inner city population. The war, however, still rages in the country’s western regions with no sign of the conflict slowing down any time soon, especially in the oil-rich region of Kordofan.
In early 2025, photojournalist Giles Clarke spent two months covering the war on the ground. During January and February, he traveled extensively through areas of mass displacement in eastern Sudan before reaching the destroyed capital of Khartoum in the days following the city’s liberation in April.
This first public upcoming exhibition of the work, to be held in Lodi at the Festival of Ethical Photography, is an up-close view of a population and country that has been left traumatized and in ruins by this brutal and ongoing conflict.

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Giles Clarke is a photojournalist focusing on capturing poignant moments of current and post-conflict global issues.
Clarke began his film and photography career in West Berlin as a 16mm camera assistant at the height of the Cold War during the mid-1980s before switching to a successful professional black-and-white photographic printer career in London and New York. In 1997, Clarke worked in the Richard Avedon darkroom in New York on some now-iconic fashion campaigns. From 1998 to 2008, Clarke moved to Los Angeles, where he worked with Channel 4 on film-based content stories and directed and produced web content for clients such as Budweiser, Hummer, and Cadillac. In 2007, Clarke began reporting from Bhopal, India, on the ongoing toxic legacy of the Union Carbide gas disaster in 1984. In 2013, Clarke was signed by Getty Images Reportage and continues today to syndicate news/feature work through Getty Images as a contributor. In 2016, Clarke traveled with Mr. Ban Ki-moon to over 40 countries, documenting the UN Secretary-General’s final year of tenure.
Clarke was awarded numerous recognitions in his career, such as 1st prize by the National Press Photographers Association, a Lucie Statue at Carnegie Hall, a Gold Award by PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris, the ‘WARS Photography Award’ created by ‘Associazione 46 Parallelo / Atlante delle guerre, the Sharjah Government Communication Award and the World Report Award|Documenting Humanity promoted bythe Festival of Ethical Photography.
His work was extensively published in magazines and newspapers, and it has been exhibited worldwide.

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