Sudanese Protest, 2008

A woman weeps during a protest by members of Melbourne’s Sudanese community. They are upset at the lack of action by the UN towards increasing violence in the oil-rich disputed hot spot of Abyei, between North and South Sudan.

Melbourne’s Sudanese community are mostly refugees from South Sudan who have fled the 22 year-long war between the north and south. Approximately 1.9 million people have been killed.

Biography:
Angela Wylie was a photojournalist at The Age for 26 years, where she hand-printed photographers’ works in the darkroom before being taken on a cadetship. Angela has covered environmental and political stories across South East Asia and the Pacific. She has also covered major stories such as the Tampa crisis in Nauru, Childers backpacker tragedy in Queensland, Black Saturday bushfires and the Melbourne gangland saga. She was embedded with the Australian Army in Afghanistan and photographed at Davis Station in Antarctica. Angela has a keen interest in Indigenous issues and Australian rural life. She won a Walkley Award in 2006.