These are slaves. Deadened by monotony and exhaustion, they worked without speaking, repeating the same task 16 hours a day. They took no rest for food or water, no bathroom breaks — although their dehydration suppressed their need to urinate.
The California girl thought about those boys, two brothers enslaved in the Himalayas, who were her own age. Their plight moved her to start a lemonade stand and raise money to free those slaves.
To stare into the eyes of a person located halfway across the world is to feel prejudice slip away from your body. There’s an instant connection that is created, not between strangers, but between human beings.
Lisa Kristine’s latest collection, titled Intimate Expanse, examines the complex and different relationships between humans and the land which they live off, across the world.
Kristine has traveled to 100 countries in six continents. Traveling has become such a big part of her life that she’ll get an “itch” if she can’t go back, especially to places like India and Nepal.
Her work drew the attention of director Jeffrey Brown, who was making the 2014 film “Sold,” which follows the journey of a 13-year-old Nepali girl who is sold to a brothel in India.
At last month’s Thomson Reuters Anti-Slavery Summit the audience was spellbound by the stories, and images, of humanitarian photographer Lisa Kristine. Sarah Lazarus spoke to her about her work
The Sisters usually live and work on the ground in the very communities where the trafficking is taking place. They live day by day in the community with victims and survivors.