Psychedelics and Starvation

A Look at the Role of Storytellers

Donna Ferrato’s collection, “Behind Closed Doors”

One afternoon in March 1993, a man walked out into a field near the village of Ayob. This village was located in what would become modern-day South Sudan. As he stumbled out into the field — exhausted from a day spent in UN convoys and photographing the gruesome scenes of the ongoing famine — the man noticed what looked like a three-year-old lying face down…