Beauty and hardships of women around the world seen in Tucson exhibit

Marie Plakso has taken her keen eye around the world and focused her camera on women.

Traveling through remote places in Mexico, Peru, Ghana and India, the Washington-based photographer snapped photos that honor the women and girls and their cultures.

“I knew that these were at-risk women and girls in these countries, and that human rights do not exist for them in many cases,” she said when the exhibit opened at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2016.

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Her intent was to telegraph that message while revealing the beauty and strength in the women and girls she photographed.

“Our Sister’s Keeper,” an exhibit of those photographs, is at Saint Philip’s Episcopal Church, 4440 N. Campbell Ave., through Oct. 28.

For more information, visit stphilipstucson.org/our-sisters-keeper or call 299-6421.