r/SouthSudan

I took these in January 2026 at a Mundari cattle camp in South Sudan.
Shot on a Lumix S5 IIX with the Samyang 35–150mm f/2–2.8.
For the edit I wanted to move away from a clean digital B&W and push it towards something rougher and more analogue. Sebastião Salgado was obviously a big reference — especially the contrast, grain, deep blacks and the way the light cuts through the smoke.
I didn’t want to copy his look exactly, but definitely tried to borrow some of that feeling.
Curious what you think about the edit. Would you push the contrast/grain even further, or is this already enough?

Yesterday, I shared a video that featured a Sudanese narrating the history of alcohol in Sudan. That video was not allowed by the moderators. The reason I was given was that "This community uses English for clarity. If you use a regional language, please include an English translation so everyone can understand. Continued violations may result in a ban."

As such, here I am again trying to repost that same video with this short English explanation.

The person talks about how alcohol in Sudan has been part and parcel of the Sudanese norms and culture even before the 'heavenly' religions of Christianity and Islam entered Sudan. He talks about how alcohol was used across history, during the Kush period and how alcohol was consumed by soldiers before battle during the Ottoman Empire and the Anglo-Egyptian rule.

The point of this post here is to debunk this rhetoric by some Sudanese that South Sudanese are but a bunch of drunkards etc etc.

Even though the video is in Arabic, I thought many people in this community could benefit from the info. Arabic, after all, is one of the (official) languages in South Sudan and is still widely used.