#faces of courage

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COURAGE Courage Today we are reminded to stay strong and be a loving warrior of light. Archangel Ariel is by your side helping you to act upon your convictions as we stand up for our beliefs, we’re a role model for others.

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New from Val de Grace and photographer Mark Tuschman, Faces of Courage: Intimate Portraits of Women on the Edge.  A beautiful and powerful document of the lives of real women globally.

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Faces of Courage – Intimate Portraits of Women on the Edge

In the rural Pali district of Rajasthan, India, where child marriage is widely practiced, American photographer Mark Tuschman is at the home of young Kala, a child bride. Elegantly dressed for her portrait in a red sari, she looks into the lens of Tuschman’s camera with great dignity. Kala was married when she was three months old so that her family could avoid the payment of a dowry. She is now 13 and in seventh grade. She is still living with her parents, but will soon go to her husband’s home where she will be deprived of the rest of her childhood, trapped in a cycle of poverty that will include years of household labor and childrearing and very possibly, domestic abuse.

Kala’s beautiful portrait is the cover photograph of Mark Tuschman’s compelling and important new book, “Faces of Courage: Intimate Portraits of Women on the Edge,” (Val de Grace Books, October 2015). Her moving story is one of many told here that address one of the most searing humanitarian issues of our time: the struggle of millions of women and girls to gain freedom over their own lives and bodies. Tuschman’s powerful images and illuminating texts reveal that for many women around the world “being born female is dangerous to your health.”

Photograph by Mark Tuschman

See more images from Faces of Courage and our other slideshows on Yahoo News!

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Filming at the Faces of Courage breast cancer retreat