Girls Not Brides - 'Shelf Life'

  • Rohit Tharakan
Every year, 15 million girls become child brides. That's one every two seconds.
Children all over the world are being forced to marry young because of poverty, starvation and sheer desperation. And with the Syrian refugee crisis at hand, more and more little girls are living the sad, fractured lives that are forced upon them.
I wanted to really show the world the horrors of this practise through a single image.