Stephanie Sinclair is a documentary photographer based in Brooklyn and an owning member of VII Photo Agency. She also co-founded Elsa & Friends Soap Cooperative in Ethiopia for survivors of child marriage. Sinclair has been documenting child marriage for more than a decade; she began after encountering young Afghan women who’d set themselves on fire. After beginning in Afghanistan, she went on to photograph underage wives in Nepal, India, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Yemen, and the United States. Her images have been published worldwide in outlets includingNational Geographic,The New York Times Magazine, andParis Match; she also won three World Press Photo awards and two Visa d’Ors at the Visa Pour L’Image photo festival for this work. Sinclair has won numerous other awards including the CARE International Award for Humanitarian Reportage, the Overseas Press Club’s Olivier Rebbot Award, and a Pulitzer Prize. In 2010, her photographs of self-immolation in Afghanistan were exhibited as part of the Whitney Biennial in New York.