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We Cry in Silence

For 7 years photographer Smita Sharma investigated and photographed the cross-border trafficking of underage girls across India, Bangladesh, and Nepal for sex work and domestic servitude. The project focuses on the highly organized trafficking rings and reveals the vulnerability of the girls and how they become trafficking victims. Her book We Cry in Silence is now out published by FotoEvidence.

In 2015 photographer Smita Sharma was working on a project entitled Not My Shame, about the issues of rape and sexual violence in her home county of India. While working in West Bengal, Sharma met a 17-year-old girl who she calls Meena. Meena had jus...

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Robert E. Gerhardt

Robert Gerhardt is a New York based photographer and freelance writer. His photographs and writings have been published nationally and internationally including in The Hong Kong Free Press, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Diplomat.

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