下記、現在オンラインではすでに始まっていますが、来る6/26にニューヨークにおいてライブによるオークションイベントが開催されますので、ご案内します。
在ニューヨークの方に是非ご紹介下さい。


写真家のステファニー・シンクレアーが最初彼女を撮影しようとした際、撮影に同意はしたものの「沢山の人が撮影に来るけど、誰も助けてはくれない」と言われたそうだ。

義弟と口論をしていた際、硫酸を浴びせられたアズラ・ラティフ（33歳）は顔と上体に第三級の火傷をおった。硫酸は一瞬にして容貌を醜く変えてしまう。残った傷は一生消える事はない。放置しておけば、更に悪化する。

ステファニーが彼女に最初に会ったのは2005年。パキスタンのラホーレにある虐待された女性の為に開設されたシェルターだった。
当時のアズラは醜く変貌した容姿を恥じ、他の入所者と食事をするのを断り、顔を見せなければいけない時には泣いていたと言う。

シェルターは手術を施したが、彼女の眼を少しだけ治すに留まった。顔と首の傷痕は悪化していった。そんな中ステファニーはこの復元手術をマルセイユで無料で実現する為の説得に尽力してくれたHumaniTerraの看護士マリー・ホセ・ブルーネルと出会う。
3ヶ月の滞在中、複数の皮膚移植手術を受け、HumaniTerraの会長が自ら手術を執り行う事になっており、このオークションでは彼女と夫の渡航費、３ヶ月の滞在費、居住費を捻出する事を目的としている。

現在、オンラインプリントオークションが始まっている。このオークションはアズラを支援するというだけでなく、パキスタンにおいて多くの女性に課される運命に対する認識を上げる事にも賛同した写真家たちがオークションのために写真を寄附している。


アズラ・ラティフを救うオークション｜Operation Azra!
現在すでにオンラインで受付中、７月1日午前0時（EDT）に終了。
http://azra.cmarket.com

尚、 6月26日の午後7時より、ニューヨーク市のThe Bubble Lounge|The Bubble Lounge 228 W Broadway, New York City, 212.431.3433|においてオークションをサポートするライブイベントが予定されているそう。

因に、写真のオークションだけでなくても、PayPalから寄附も出来ます。
http://www.novembereleven.org/support/azra.html
より。


写真を寄附してる写真家のリストはこちら。

* Lynsey Addario
* Samantha Appleton
* Andrea Bruce
* Marcus Bleasdale
* Tamas Dezso
* Jessica Dimmock
* Balazs Gardi
* David Gillanders
* David Guttenfelder
* Todd Heisler
* Lynn Johnson
* Ed Kashi
* Gary Knight
* Antonin Kratochvil
* Yuri Kozyrev
* Teru Kuwayama
* Shaul Schwartz
* Stephanie Sinclair
* Kadir Van Lohuizen
* Ami Vitale

ステファニーの案内より転載：

Hey Guys,

Just wanted to draw your attention to an online print auction that just started to help Azra Latif, a Pakistani girl I met who was severely disfigured when her brother-in-law threw acid on her face during an argument. We are trying to raise money to pay for her and her husband’s transportation costs and three months of housing and living expenses in France, where she will receive several surgeries to help repair her significant injuries.

I know not everyone can afford musuem quality prints for their living room, even if you could help spread the word by putting a button on your websites and blogs, I would be appreciative. You can get that here, http://photobetty.com/operationazra . And small cash donations will also help, as they definitely add up!

Here is more info! THANKS!!

Photojournalists from prestigious organizations such as National Geographic, German GEO, the photo agency VII, TIME, Newsweek, The New York Times and more, are donating iconic works in an Exhibition and Online Print Auction to benefit victims of acid burning in Pakistan.

Online auction presented by November Eleven

Begins at 1am EDT June 6, 2007 and closes EDT midnight July 1, 2007

http://azra.cmarket.com

Live event presented by SeenUnSeen and The Bubble Lounge to support the auction June 26th at 7 pm at

The Bubble Lounge 228 W Broadway, New York City, 212.431.3433

World-renowned photojournalists are donating their favorite images, signed and printed, to raise money for female victims of acid burning and to raise awareness about a fate inflicted on many women in Pakistan. Marked with dishonor, their harsh disfigurement often forces them live in the shadows of every-day life―excluded by family and society.

Initially, the proceeds will help Azra Latif, a Pakistani woman who suffered third-degree acid burns on her face and torso and faces a lifetime of agony as her injuries continue to scar and worsen the longer they remain untreated. Any remaining funds will go towards helping start a fund to help future victims through the same life-saving process.

Items include never before available work by such photographers as The New York Times’ Todd Heisler, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning and very emotional work on the return of deceased soldiers from Iraq will be available for purchase for the first time.

Participating photographers include Lynsey Addario, Samantha Appleton, Andrea Bruce , Marcus Bleasdale, Tamas Dezso , Jessica Dimmock, Balazs Gardi, David Gillanders, David Guttenfelder, Todd Heisler, Lynn Johnson, Ed Kashi , Gary Knight , Antonin Kratochvil, Yuri Kozyrev, Teru Kuwayama, Shaul Schwartz, Stephanie Sinclair, Kadir Van Lohuizen and Ami Vitale.

When Sinclair first asked to photograph her, Azra agreed but also said, “Everyone photographs me but no one helps.” Here is your chance to literally change a woman’s life while also owning some of the most compelling photojournalism of the modern era.


サイトより転載：

Select photojournalists from prestigious organizations such as National Geographic, the photo agency VII, TIME, Newsweek and The New York Times donate iconic works in an Exhibition and Online Print Auction to benefit victims of acid burning in Pakistan.

Online auction presented by November Eleven
Please BID or DONATE NOW for this worthy cause!

Begins at midnight EDT June 6, 2007 and closes midnight EDT July 1, 2007

Live event to support the auction June 26th at 7 pm at

The Bubble Lounge
228 W Broadway
New York City
212.431.3433

World-renowned photojournalists are donating their favorite images, signed and printed, to raise money for female victims of acid burning and to raise awareness about a fate inflicted on many women in Pakistan. Marked with dishonor, their harsh disfigurement often forces them to live in the shadows of every-day life--excluded by family and society.
Here is your chance to literally change a woman's life while also owning some of the most compelling photojournalism of the modern era.



Items include never before available work by such photographers as The New York Times' Todd Heisler, whose emotional Pulitzer Prize-winning work on the return of deceased soldiers from Iraq will be available for purchase for the first time.

Participating photographers include:

* Lynsey Addario
* Samantha Appleton
* Andrea Bruce
* Marcus Bleasdale
* Tamas Dezso
* Jessica Dimmock
* Balazs Gardi
* David Gillanders
* David Guttenfelder
* Todd Heisler
* Lynn Johnson
* Ed Kashi
* Gary Knight
* Antonin Kratochvil
* Yuri Kozyrev
* Teru Kuwayama
* Shaul Schwartz
* Stephanie Sinclair
* Kadir Van Lohuizen
* Ami Vitale

Initially, the proceeds will help Azra Latif, a Pakistani woman who suffered third-degree acid burns on her face and torso and faces a lifetime of agony as her injuries continue to scar and worsen the longer they remain untreated.
Background

Azra, 33, was severely burned two years ago when her brother-in-law threw acid on her face during an argument.

When Photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair first met her in 2005, she was staying at Dastak, a shelter in Lahore, Pakistan, opened for abused women. At the time she was so ashamed of her appearance that she refused to eat with the other residents and cried every time she had to show her face.

The shelter provided some surgery for her, but only a little to help fix her eye. The rest of her face and neck continues to deteriorate. But Sinclair contacted Marie Jose Brunel, a nurse with HumaniTerra, who convinced the organization to provide reconstructive surgery for her in Marseille for free. She will have to spend as long as three-months in the hospital receiving multiple skin grafts. But HumaniTerra's president, Christian Echinard, will be doing the surgery himself. The money raised will help provide transportation, housing and other living expenses for Azra, and her husband, Abdul Latif. Any extra money will go towards helping future victims through the same life-saving process.


写真：©Stephanie Sinclair

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