8° Edition
Lizzie Sadin
Slavery and Trafficking of Women in Nepal
Lizzie Sadin, born in 1957, is a French photographer. Former member of the Rapho agency, she has devoted herself since the start of her career to documenting violence against women at a global level, especially in Madagascar and in Israel.
© Corinne Bourbotte
Lizzie Sadin devoted the first ten years of her career to the socio-educational sector. Successively working as an educator, facilitator and trainer with adults, workers undergoing retraining and young people suffering from illiteracy, she has forged a unique perspective on the world around her.
Inspired by the images taken by humanist photographers such as Sebastiao Salgado, Eugène Smith, Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, she decided in 1992 to devote herself to photography in order to bear witness to what she had that she had seen ignored. In 1994 she joined Robert Doisneau's Rapho agency. Doisneau's Rapho agency and devoted herself to in-depth reports on human rights.
Trafficking in women became a major part of her approach from 2004, when she produced a report on the early marriage of young girls in Ethiopia. In 2007 and 2009, she turned her attention to the condition of women in Moldova and sex tourism, as well as the exploitation of underage girls in Madagascar and the trafficking of women in Israel ‘Promised Land, Promised Women...’. as part of the Boulat Prize.
Lizzie Sadin has spent several years working on the conditions in which children are detained around the world. ‘Minurs en peine’ won the Visa d'Or award and was published in Photo Poche by Actes Sud.
