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Sara Hylton is currently based between Brooklyn, New York, and New Delhi, and covers women’s issues and human rights. Her principal medium is the portrait. Resilience, humanity and the quiet beauty in everyday life guides her work and the stories she covers. Follow her work on her website and on Instagram.
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The world’s youngest country, South Sudan, also has one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates. In her photo essay, Sara Hylton captures the challenges facing new mothers in Juba and the struggles of midwives trying to make it safer for women to give birth.
Caste-based discrimination is illegal in India, but members of the Dalit community are often still treated as ‘untouchables.’ Documenting the lives of Dalits across South Asia, photojournalist Sara Hylton meets women who endure daily humiliations with dignity.
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