On display at the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery - child brides in Bangladesh by Dutch photographer Jouk Oosterhof. Shot for Linda magazine and the child right’s organisation Plan International:
Worldwide every year 12 million girls get married under the age of eighteen. In Bangladesh child marriage is prohibited, but in reality this law is not well enforced. The older the girl, the more her parents must pay for the dowry. This only makes it worse. When a girl gets married, her education stops. [Mick Hartley] Read more
