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In this episode of Edits, Ashley speaks with photographer Saumya Khandelwal on her work documenting child brides in India. Child brides in India, while illegal, remains a normal practice in many parts of the country. Saumya has been documenting this tradition and its affects on girls and women in her home state of Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state.  They talk about her project called "Child Brides of Shravasti" and the story of the girls that she photographed over four years.  Ashley and Saumya also go over her creative process before she began photographing the story, along with Saumya's thoughts on why child brides are still such a large part of many communities traditions from poverty to patriarchy. Saumya also goes into the details behind the images below.  -- Saumya Khandelwal is an independent photojournalist based in New Delhi, India, contributing for The New York Times and National Geographic among others. A Getty Images Instagram Grantee 2017 for her work ‘Child Brides of Shravasti’, her works focus on gender and environmental issues.  Nominated for World Press Photo 6X6 Global Talent Program from Asia region in 2019, Khandelwal has built a diverse body of work spanning journalism and documentary genres of photography over the past six years. Khandelwal has previously worked with Thomson Reuters and national daily Hindustan Times.   She has contributed for National Geographic, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Guardian, Bloomberg Businessweek, Stern, Der Speigel, Nzz Am Sonntag, MIT Technology Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Vanity Fair, Caravan etc. and NGOs Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Malala Fund, Path India etc.   Recipient of the National Foundation of India Award 2017, Khandelwal's work has also been exhibited at Getty Images Gallery, London, India Photo Festival, Hyderabad, and Goa Photo Festival; and digitally exhibited at Women in Photography slideshow, Singapore. Website: www.saumyakhandelwal.com  Instagram: www.instagram.com/khandelwal_saumya

In this episode of Edits, Ashley speaks with photographer James Whitlow Delano on documenting deforestation in Southeast Asia and the Amazon. James has been photographing the ongoing deforestation of some of the world's largest tropical rainforests and the effect on indigenous peoples that inhabit the lands since 1994. Ashley discusses James' project "Rainforest Sentinels", where he attempted a new form of creative communication for an issue affecting so many equatorial rainforests. James also discusses his creative process behind the work and reasons why this particular topic has been close to him for decades. -- James Whitlow Delano is a Japan-based documentary storyteller. His work has been published and exhibited throughout the world and led to four award-winning monograph photo books, including, Empire: Impressions from China and Black Tsunami: Japan 2011. Projects have been cited by the Alfred Eisenstadt Award (from Columbia University and LIFE magazine), Leica’s Oskar Barnack, Picture of the Year International, NPPA Best of Photojournalism, PDN, and others for work from China, Japan, Afghanistan, and Burma (Myanmar), among others.  In 2015, he founded EverydayClimateChange (ECC) Instagram feed, where photographers from six continents document global climate change on seven continents.  Website: www.jameswhitlowdelano.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/jameswhitlowdelano