Kate Orne, a photographer, has spent the past nine years focused on equality issues in Pakistan. She is the only photographer to be allowed inside the brothels to document the prostitutes and their children, madams, pimps and trafficking victims who are living stigmatized under cultural oppression.

Since 2005, she has worked actively with the local residents and supported their efforts to strengthen their community and build a safer future for their children. To learn more, please visit MayYouNeverBeUncovered.org.

Orne is a 2010 Fellow for Photography from the New York Foundation for the arts her work exhibited in museums and galleries around the country. Her book proposal, ”May You Never Be Uncovered," on the victims of Pakistan's sex trade, is currently being submitted to publishers through Objective Entertainment.

Her work has appeared in Esquire, GQ, Interview, Artnet.com, Arena, Vibe, Spin, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour, Black Book, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Trace, Tokion, +81, Dune and Vision, among others.

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