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2004 Visa d'or Feature: Stephanie Sinclair. Marzia, 15, struggles while having her burns cleaned in Herat, Afghanistan, August 30, 2003. The painful but necessary ritual is performed daily by the nurse as part of the recovery process. Marzia set herself on fire because she was afraid of her husband's reaction to her breaking the family television set. They were married when she was only 9 years old. “I was honored with my first Visa d'or at Perpignan in 2004 for a story on the self-immolation of women in Afghanistan. I had no idea the work was even nominated, so my winning came as a wonderful surprise. It really was that last thing in the world I’d expected as I'd only been freelancing for about a year at the time and it was also my very first trip to the Visa Pour L'Image festival. I can’t overstate how incredibly encouraging it was to have these intimate and deeply personal photographs about the women I'd met appreciated to such an extent by Jean-François and the international photo community. That story would eventually lead to a decade-long project on the global child marriage issue”. (Photo by Stephanie Sinclair)
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