Today I want to present you a brave female photojournalist. Her name is Stephanie Sinclair and she's known because of her work on women's issues in the arabic world. She's a woman who contributes to give the western world a reality check. For example her work "Self-Immolation: a cry for help" which she developed between 2003 and 2005 in Afghanistan. She tells the story of hundreds of women who set themselves on fire, a desperate cry for help. Very often the self-immolations are related with domestic violence or sexual abusement.
Another important story is "The bride price". Stephanie Sinclair is covering the stories of young girls all over the world who have been forcibly married, sometimes to men who are much more older. The first issue about self-immolation and the second one about shutgun marriage are two topics that are related: the International Center for Research on Women sees the self-immolation as a common consecuence of this shutgun marriage. If you want to find out more about these issues you can see a short film produced by Eric Maierson with photographs of Stephanie Sinclair at the ICRW-Website: LINK.
Stephanie Sinclair got several prizes and was honored for her outstanding work. Among others with the CARE International Award for Humanitarian Reportage in 2008, the UNICEF photo of the year 2007 or the World Press Photo Award in 2004. You can visit Stephanie's website under http://www.stephaniesinclair.com.
Photo from www.fiftycrows.org
Photo from nytimes.com
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