Too Young To Wed: award winning photography on show as part of Girl Summit 2014
30 Jun 2014 03:57 PM
Photographic exhibition
exploring the issue of child marriage to be shown at the London School of
Economics from 21 July - 1 August 2014.
Child, early and forced marriage
occurs in every part of the world, affecting millions of girls every year. One
in three girls in developing countries is married by the age of 18, and one in
nine by the age of 15. Some are as young as eight.
Photographer, Stephanie
Sinclair, has documented the issue of child marriage for more than a decade.
She lived in the Middle East for six years and began her work on child marriage
after encountering young women who had set themselves on fire in Afghanistan
and learning that many of these girls had been married
underage.
In addition to Afghanistan, this
ongoing project has led her to Nepal, India, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Yemen and the
United States. The resulting images have been published worldwide in
prestigious outlets such as National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine,
and Paris Match among many others. Most recently, the images have won three
World Press Photo awards and two Visa d’Ors at the Visa Pour
L’Image photo festival in Perpignan, France. Sinclair is the recipient of
numerous other awards including the CARE International Award for Humanitarian
Reportage, the Overseas Press Club’s Olivier Rebbot Award and a Pulitzer
Prize.
The resulting photographic
exhibition, Too Young To Wed,
produced in association with UNFPA,
has been exhibited around the world.
The Department for International
Development is delighted to bring an abridged version of the exhibit to the UK
for the first time. It will be on display at the London School of
Economics from 21 July - 1 August 2014, as part of the British
Government’s Girl Summit
2014.
The Girl Summit will rally a
global movement to end child, early and forced marriage and female genital
mutilation (FGM) for all girls within a generation.
Doing this will help preserve
girls’ childhoods, promote their education, reduce their exposure to
violence and abuse, and allow them to fulfil their potential in life. Everyone
has a part to play in achieving rights for girls and women around the
world.
Take a stand against child
marriage and FGM today – sign our
pledge now to show your support in ending these harmful practices forever.
Your voices will be heard at the summit.
To see an online version of the
exhibition, visit www.tooyoungtowed.org