Title: We cry in silence
Photographer(s): Smita Sharma
Writer(s): Smita Sharma
Designer(s): Fernanda Fajardo and Joao Linneu
Publisher(s): FotoEvidence, Marseille, France
Year: 2022
Print run:
Language(s): Englis, Hindu, Bengali
Pages: 204
Size: 17 x 22,5 cm
Binding: Hardcover
Edition:
Print: Thomson Press, India
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: India, 2015-2022
ISBN: 9781732471191
India is home to more than 400 million children below the age of 18 years and thousands of children go missing every year. The situation is similar in Bangladesh which shares a long, porous border with India. The government estimates 50,000 girls are trafficked to India every year.
The publication of the book We Cry in Silence is part of the initiative by Indian photojournalist Smita Sharma, in partnership with the FotoEvidence Association, and it is designed to expose evidence of sex and domestic trafficking. The project educates teenage girls and the public about the methods traffickers use to lure and abduct girls from Bangladesh, Nepal and India. The Initiative is organized around Sharma’s seven years of investigation and photographs and includes book publication of We Cry in Silence, traveling exhibits and community events and a newspaper quality zine for free distribution in the trafficking areas.
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