UNICEF photo of the year.

[esoter1c]

UNICEF photo of the year

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, December 19, 2007 12:05 PM | permalink

Stephanie Sinclair won the UNICEF photo of the year for her haunting picture of a 40-year-man and his 11-year-old bride in Afghanistan.

He’s forty, she’s eleven. And they are a couple – the Afghan man Mohammed F.* and the child Ghulam H.*. “We needed the money”, Ghulam’s parents said. Faiz claims he is going to send her to school. But the women of Damarda village in Afghanistan’s Ghor province know better: “Our men don’t want educated women.” They predict that Ghulam will be married within a few weeks after her engagement in 2006, so as to bear children for Faiz. During her stay in Afghanistan, it consistently struck American photographer Stephanie Sinclair how many young girls are married to much older men. She decided to raise awareness about this topic with her pictures. Particularly as the official minimum age for brides in Afghanistan is sixteen and it is therefore illegal to marry children.

Link (Via Nothing To Do With Arbroath)

[ppcock]

hmmmm

That's... bizarre.

[ebbomega]

Not even grass on the field.

I wonder if this means he only gets 39 virgins?

[Revolver]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

Not even grass on the field.

*that pic is nothing without the story behind it.

thats why its unicefs tops of the years and not like NG'S or DISC's

[azazel]