The Sudanese community in New Zealand has come together to create an exhibition focusing on the war in Sudan - and it's just opened in Auckland.
Community group Yala For Sudan aims to shine a light on the impacts the conflict has had on people, with photos on the wall showing a snapshot of the past year of war.
Exhibition organiser Rahman Bashir said it captures the faces of the people impacted by the war.
"War causes a lot of pain outside of death and I think this gives you a great perspective."
It's all part of an exhibition titled Homeland - Sudan In Focus: The People & The War, which is now showing at Auckland's Studio One.
"It's to give people a holistic understanding of what the last year has been," Bashir said.
In April 2023, war broke out between Sudan's Armed Forces and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces - leaving millions displaced and facing famine.
Organiser and multidisciplinary artist Leena Kheir said she hopes people will leave the exhibition with a good sense of the scale of the violence and what has been lost.
"This has been recognised as one of the greatest humanitarian crises today and I think that's lost on a lot of people because they don't hear about it."
The photos were taken by Sudanese photographer Ala Kheir who was on the ground when the war broke out.
"You can see the distress associated with a 12-hour journey by foot or a 24-hour bus ride. You can see the emotions of what it means to feel internally displaced in your own whenua - your land," Bashir said.
"Within the first 72 hours, more than half of the hospitals in Sudan were non-functional and that only the first 3 days so you can imagine what 365 days plus has yielded."
An in-depth timeline of the war takes up one wall of the exhibit.
The war has displaced more than 8.7 million people in Sudan, with 3.5 million children under the age of 5 experiencing acute malnutrition.
Save the Children has warned about 230,000 children, pregnant women and newborn mothers could die of malnutrition in the coming months.
Bashir doesn't want the statistics to dilute the human aspect of this crisis.
"It was very emotional putting it all together because every statistic or data that you reference is impacting a certain group of people or country."
Despite the war being contained within the borders of Sudan, there are international players involved.
Evidence has emerged the Russian mercenary group Wagner has been supplying Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces with missiles.
Ukrainian special forces are also reportedly operating in the country in support of the Sudan's Armed Forces.
The exhibit also includes contributions from local artists. Kheir also shared some of her artwork.
"These pieces represent multi-generational family homes and intimacy and connection between your sisters and your aunts and mothers and your grandmas and everything that I really hold to be a representation of what it is to be Sudanese and hold onto your culture."
The exhibition closes on May 9.
