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Select photojournalists from prestigious organizations such as National Geographic, the photo agency VII, TIME, Newsweek and The New York Times donate iconic works in an Exhibition and Online Print Auction to benefit victims of acid burning in Pakistan.
Online auction presented by November Eleven
Please BID or DONATE NOW for this worthy cause!
Begins at midnight EDT June 6, 2007 and closes midnight EDT July 1, 2007
Live event to support the auction June 26th at 7 pm at
The Bubble Lounge
228 W Broadway
New York City
212.431.3433
World-renowned photojournalists are donating their favorite images, signed and printed, to raise money for female victims of acid burning and to raise awareness about a fate inflicted on many women in Pakistan. Marked with dishonor, their harsh disfigurement often forces them to live in the shadows of every-day life--excluded by family and society.
Here is your chance to literally change a woman's life while also owning some of the most compelling photojournalism of the modern era.
Items include never before available work by such photographers as The New York Times' Todd Heisler, whose emotional Pulitzer Prize-winning work on the return of deceased soldiers from Iraq will be available for purchase for the first time.
Participating photographers include:
* Lynsey Addario
* Samantha Appleton
* Andrea Bruce
* Marcus Bleasdale
* Tamas Dezso
* Jessica Dimmock
* Balazs Gardi
* David Gillanders
* David Guttenfelder
* Todd Heisler
* Lynn Johnson
* Ed Kashi
* Gary Knight
* Antonin Kratochvil
* Yuri Kozyrev
* Teru Kuwayama
* Shaul Schwartz
* Stephanie Sinclair
* Kadir Van Lohuizen
* Ami Vitale
Initially, the proceeds will help Azra Latif, a Pakistani woman who suffered third-degree acid burns on her face and torso and faces a lifetime of agony as her injuries continue to scar and worsen the longer they remain untreated.
Background
Azra, 33, was severely burned two years ago when her brother-in-law threw acid on her face during an argument.
When Photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair first met her in 2005, she was staying at Dastak, a shelter in Lahore, Pakistan, opened for abused women. At the time she was so ashamed of her appearance that she refused to eat with the other residents and cried every time she had to show her face.
The shelter provided some surgery for her, but only a little to help fix her eye. The rest of her face and neck continues to deteriorate. But Sinclair contacted Marie Jose Brunel, a nurse with HumaniTerra, who convinced the organization to provide reconstructive surgery for her in Marseille for free. She will have to spend as long as three-months in the hospital receiving multiple skin grafts. But HumaniTerra's president, Christian Echinard, will be doing the surgery himself. The money raised will help provide transportation, housing and other living expenses for Azra, and her husband, Abdul Latif. Any extra money will go towards helping future victims through the same life-saving process.
