Not only is this National Geographic winning photo interesting; this very town where I have been most of the last 32 years used to be part of what is Yemen today. I have plenty of photos very similar to this and the Background Mountains are of the same terrain the border being few km away from where I am right now.
First Prize: Contemporary Issues, Stories
Photograph courtesy Stephanie Sinclair, VII/National Geographic/World Press Photo
Nearly half of all Yemeni women begin married life as child brides—including these girls posing with their husbands outside the mountain village of Hajjah Hajjah in June 2010. Tahani (in pink) married her husband, Majed, at age six. He was 25.
Taken by Stephanie Sinclair on assignment for National Geographic magazine, the picture is part of a series that won the "Contemporary Issues" category. (Seemore pictures from the child-brides assignment.)
"This image is extremely powerful and a [great] use of photography to try to point out social ills or problems in society and shed a light on a very important issue," Sartore said. "It was done extremely well, and getting this kind of image of these subjects really took a lot of work."
Published February 15, 2012
I took this photo from the front yard of the Primary Health Care Center; one of many in this region.
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