Name: Photos that bear witness to modern slavery
Uploaded: 2012-08-11T14:00:45Z
Duration: 19 min 4 s
Description: 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.

Lisa Kristine: Photos that bear witness to modern slavery

Photos that bear witness to modern slavery

Enslaved in the silk trade, entire Indian families work in toxic conditions for no pay, highlighting the human cost behind luxury goods.

Over 27 million people are enslaved today, more than double the number trafficked during the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Modern slaves, often trapped by debt as small as $18, labor in harsh conditions for no pay, generating $13 billion annually.