Smita Sharma

Smita Sharma is an independent photojournalist and visual storyteller based in Delhi. Her work primarily focusses on human rights, gender, crime and social issues. 

Her work has been published in various places like National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times, BBC World, TIME, Channel 4 amongst many others. Smita has exhibited and shown her work across the globe including the UN Headquarters in New York. She is a Getty Images grantee and an IWMF Fellow. She received the One World Media Awards for short film Rebels With a Cause in the Popular Features Category at BAFTA, London in 2019. 

Other than her home country India, she has also worked in other countries highlighting difficult and sensitive issues such as child marriage in Nepal, teenage pregnancy in Kenya, sexual slavery in Central African Republic and murdered transport workers of Guatemala.