Layla Love
Layla Love is an American photographer based in New York. Her works generally focus on disadvantaged, exploited, and trafficked people. Early life and education. Love was born in 1979 in Los Angeles, California. Growing up in California, Washington D.C., and Ireland, her childhood was characterized by continuous travel. As a child, Love was diagnosed with dystonia, a neurological movement disorder syndrome that required her to use wheelchairs and crutches in order to move. Aged 12, Love developed a fascination with photography. Love studied at UC Santa Cruz and Richmond, The American International University in London. Photography. At age  21, she ventured to war-torn areas with a focus on the plight of women and traveled to Chad, Cameroon, and Nigeria. Love's photography has been shown by Eric Franck Fine Arts at Paris Photo in Paris in 2011, and at the Association of International "Photography" Art Dealers (AiPAD) Photography Show in New York in 2009. Exhibitions. Love has exhibited photography domestically across the United States as well as internationally. Philanthropy. Profits from her show "Rise" were promised to Voices for Freedom, Apne Aap, and CATW. In 2016, Love, with Gloria Steinem, conceived of "Rise of the Butterfly", to  provide a sustainable source of funding for grassroots organizations working to fight human trafficking and help women and girls around the world recover from being trafficked.