She ran the King's Head Theatre in Islington with her husband Daniel Crawford. The organization has since partnered with the United Nations Population Fund and other nonprofits to help prevent the narrowing of young girl’s lives and opportunities. Stephanie Sinclaire Lightsmith (Febru 14 April 2021), 1 also known as Stephanie Crawford, was a painter and director in theatre and film, and a writer. With her advocacy, she helped start an NGO to work and raise money to curtail the practice, and in 2012, she co-produced a documentary, Too Young to Wed. The response to Sinclair's child bride work has overwhelmed her. Two other photographers will be recognized with honorable mentions: Louisa Gouliamaki for compelling storytelling of the European refugee crisis, and Nicole Tung, whose work has given voice and visibility to civilians caught in conflict in Syria, Iraq, and Libya. Creative Alchemy 'A crucial book for our times. “So it really is the courage to take this on as your life's work, and to listen to these stories and make them public.” “Imagine the courage it takes day after day to listen to the stories of the horror young girls are experiencing,” says Elisa Lees Munoz, executive director of the International Women’s Media Foundation. The judges found that Sinclair stood out not only for her deep and intimate portraits, but for her willingness to return to scenes of horrific suffering and atrocity to capture images to help raise awareness around the world.

(See Sinclair's child bride photographs that were published in National Geographic.) In 2012, Synclair and her then seven-year-old son Caden spent a year traveling through Europe and Asia. Even as an adult, she never gave up on her goal of seeing the world. The marriages force girls as young as nine into adult roles (including becoming pregnant), and isolates them from social interaction. ABOUT STEPHANIE SINCLAIRE LIGHTSMITH Stephanie is an awarding winning director, writer and producer of film and theatre and an artist and author. As a young girl growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, Stephanie Synclair recalls daydreaming about the far-off places shed seen depicted in Victorian paintings. Sinclair has visited many of the 50 countries where child marriage occurs and witnessed the ways the practice cuts short adolescence for almost 40,000 girls each day. Photograph by Stephanie Sinclairīut Sinclair’s stand-out work is her 15-year long series, Too Young to Wed, that has taken her all over the world chronicling the stunting effects of young girls who are forced to marry too young, and the physical and emotional damage inflicted on child brides. There is currently no minimum legal of marriage in Yemen. The young wife posed for this portrait with former classmate Ghana, also a child bride, outside their mountain home in Hajji, Yemen, in 2010. Farewell to Stephanie Sinclaire Lightsmith, who was the fourth wife of KingsHeadThtr founder DAN CRAWFORD (who died in 2005) and became the theatre’s associate artistic director, who died by drowning, aged 67, in April. Artist, Novelist & Film-Maker, pillar of the Arts community in London and. I hated to see him,' Tahini (in pink) recalls of the early days of her marriage to Mated, when she was 6 and he was 25. STEPHANIE SINCLAIRE LIGHTSMITH OBITUARY SINCLAIRE LIGHTSMITH, Stephanie: Passed away on 14th April 2021, age 67.

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