Witness Image has received an exclusive assignment from The Nando and Elsa Peretti foundation to document the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan. Currently The Nando and Elsa Peretti foundation is supporting several international NGOs to cope with the country’s emergency.

The photographer Luca Catalano Gonzaga will travel in the Northern region of the country currently devasted by a political and ethnic war aggravating an already unstable situation. The current information provided by field workers is: 1 million 792,000 cross-border refugees, 2 million displaced persons in the country, out of 12 million inhabitants, more than 5 million people are affected by the food crisis, about 50,000 civilians and soldiers killed in conflicts.  Currently The Nando and Elsa Peretti foundation is supporting several international NGOs to cope with the country’s emergency.