Since 2012 Brian Sokol has focused on telling the stories of refugees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), and stateless people in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. The Most Important Thing—his ongoing, long-term portraiture project—seeks to humanize and convey the dignity of individuals who have been dehumanized by conflict, government policies and the media.
This body of work was my means of coming back to Life, emerging in a new way, transformed by my own shadow and light, and by the shadow of what our human activities are doing to the planet, the evolution by chance of the past, and the light of our enormous potential to choose conscious evolution and a new story today and every day.
