Australian director Genevieve Bailey’s film Happy Sad Man explores how five men navigate intense emotional hardship
Jacob Simkin believes in humanity. But while documenting the fallout from airstrikes and artillery barrages in north-eastern Syria, he says this optimism has created a war inside him. The Melbourne-raised photographer is more at home in chaos than in peace.
Simkin has also covered conflict in Somalia, Pakistan and Afghanistan over the past 15 years, and has taught activists how to shoot video to document war crimes. He speaks to Guardian Australia from the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn on the Turkish border, and says his career has come at a personal cost. He was diagnosed some years ago with post-traumatic stress and moral injury syndrome: he feels guilt over those he cannot help. He finds it hard to relate to people who are not consciously trying to make the world a better place.
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