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Photos that bear witness to modern slavery

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Lisa Kristine |

TEDxMaui

• January 2012

Photographer Lisa Kristine travels the world documenting the unbearably harsh realities of modern-day slavery. She shares hauntingly beautiful images -- miners in the Congo, bricklayers in Nepal -- that illuminate the plight of the 27 million souls enslaved worldwide.

Photographer Lisa Kristine travels the world documenting the unbearably harsh realities of modern-day slavery. She shares hauntingly beautiful images -- miners in the Congo, bricklayers in Nepal -- that illuminate the plight of the 27 million souls enslaved worldwide.

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Lisa Kristine uses photography to expose deeply human stories.

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Gallery: Slavery and survival in the 21st century

Explore 17 of Lisa Kristine's photos that reveal how slavery persists around the world today.

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