UNICEF: PHOTO OF THE YEAR (Forced Marriage)

Motown Junkie · TOP Guru

RE: UNICEF: PHOTO OF THE YEAR (Forced Marriage)

God · Foro Master

Winning award pictures are not the greatest technically speaking but they alway have something to "transmit".

Nice ones.

Hugo · Guru

UNICEF continues creating awareness by choosing these types of pics while their marketing approach is still smiling kids from all over the globe

LGigolo · Comandante

Chale Tanga wrote:

This thread has the best pictures ever!

Good stuff LG... at first I thought it was gonna be another one of your homersexual threads, but this is one is pretty good. Kudos to you my friend, kudos to you.

Thank you... Thank you very mush, perdida! Where have you been? ... you no longer here regularly... Cheers

Yeap, like Daeweed said... helps to see/realize/notice how good we have it - yet some of us complain about menial little things. Sometimes we give so much to our own children and they don't realize how REALLY GOOD they have it over here.

Daeveed · Foro Master

Good pictures, very telling!!

Helps to put our own lives in perspective.

Chale Tanga · TOP Guru

This thread has the best pictures ever!

Good stuff LG... at first I thought it was gonna be another one of your homersexual threads, but this is one is pretty good. Kudos to you my friend, kudos to you.

PlayDead · Guru

OMG se me parte el corazon cuando veo fotos asi. cry

Guadalupana · Foro Master

And again...what the hell do we have to complain about?

The poor dears.

This world is so stupid.

Dogo · Comandante

WTF!

Great pics though

LGigolo · Comandante

SECOND PRIZE WENT TO:

G M B AKASH for THIS picture of Child Labour:

Child Labor in Bangladesh

According to UNICEF estimates, about 3.3 million children in Bangladesh are involved in child labor almost 20% of the working population, despite efforts during the 1990s to ban child labor in the textile industry. Many children are forced to carry out hazardous work with dangerous chemicals in paint shops, workshops and tanneries. A child worker receives 60 Taka per day (less than 1 Dollar), about one-third of the regular wage for adults. Factory owners prefer to employ children, thereby keeping trade unions out of their factories. By entering the labor market at such an early age, children have no chance of getting an education and consequently no chance of getting better-paid jobs.

The photographer G.M.B. Akash grew up in Bangladesh and has been working as a professional photographer since 2002. He first and foremost watches people on the margins of his countrys society. With his camera, he tries to document their right to exist, hoping that his pictures give them dignity and raise awareness for their difficult situation.

Photo: G M B (Golam Mostofa Bhuiya) Akash, Bangladesh, Freelance Photographer, Panos Pictures

OTHER PICTURES by G M B AKASH:

Check out this photographer's WEBSITE HERE

-- Edited by LGigolo at 14:13, 2007-12-18

LGigolo · Comandante

(Stephanie Sinclair for The New York Times)
Roshan Qasem, 11, will join the household of Said Mohammed, 55; his first wife; their three sons; and their daughter, who is the same age as Roshan.

LGigolo · Comandante

Majabin was given away as payment for a gambling debt.

LGigolo · Comandante

Stephanie Sinclair
Majabin Mohammed, 13, left, sits with her husband of six months, Mohammed Fazal, 45, his first wife and their child.

LGigolo · Comandante

Family and friends gathered to celebrate Ghulam's engagement. The father of the bride, Mahmoud Haider, 32, said he is unhappy giving his daughter away at such a young age, but has no choice due to severe poverty.

TV Buff · TOP Guru

OMG! She looks so disgusted and pissed.

And she's so pretty.

This is so sad.

Hey, this reminds me: I watched the Nativity Story the other day, and though it is a very nice and touching movie, it did get me thinking, but not about religion. Imagine Mary, a 14 year old, who comes home and says she's having a baby and she's engaged to Joseph, a much, much older man than her. Just as a social study, taking religion away from this story, I can imagine what poor Mary must've gone through.

Aaaanyway, interesting picture.

LGigolo · Comandante

The American photographer Stephanie Sinclair is the winner of the international photo competition UNICEF Photo of the Year. Her photo shows a wedding couple in Afghanistan who could not be more opposite. The groom, Mohammed, looks much older than his 40 years. The bride, Ghulam, is still a child; she just turned 11. The UNICEF Photo of the Year 2007 raises awareness about a worldwide problem. Millions of girls are married while they are still under age. Most of theses child brides are forever denied a self-determined life, says UNICEF Patroness Eva Luise Köhler at the award ceremony in Berlin. According to UNICEF, there are about 60 million young women worldwide who were married before they came of age, half of them in South Asia.

Find out more: UNICEF PHOTO OF THE YEAR

-- Edited by LGigolo at 12:48, 2007-12-18