Photographer's image chosen for Mother's Day mortality campaign
Since starting her career as a print journalistic more than 20 years ago, Lee Karen Stow has visited 50 countries and has branched out into photo-journalism, working for the country's biggest newspapers, magazines, and travel guides.
Since February 2007, she has been working on a long-term documentary photographic and written study of the women of Sierra Leone, because Hull is twinned with Freetown.
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Hide AdThis body of work is called 42 and consists of 42 photographic images to highlight the fact that life expectancy for women in Sierra Leone is around 42.
The exhibition has visited galleries and universities in America and around the UK before opening at the Royal Commonwealth Society in London on March 15 co-hosted by Amnesty International UK.
Amnesty unveiled its Demand Dignity campaign in Sierra Leone as the country has the world's highest maternal mortality rates.
Ms Stow said: "Amnesty contacted me last week and asked if they could use one of my images for a Mother's Day card."