Canon Ambassador and photojournalist Yagazie Emezi is motivated by a desire to highlight the stories of underrepresented groups, particularly women and children. This image for Save the Children is of a 17-year-old teenage mother sitting in the shadows at her Aunt Esther's home in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Taken on a Canon Canon EOS 5D Mark III (now succeeded by the Canon EOS 5D Mark IV) with a Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens (now succeeded by the Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM) at 40mm, 1/80 sec, f/5 and ISO80. © Yagazie Emezi / Save the Children
"I left Nigeria when I was 16 years old and remember most of the images on my first camera [a Canon EOS Rebel T2i, now succeeded by the Canon EOS 850D] were taken when I returned after eight years. I just wanted to record these memories of my childhood home," she explains. "I remember going through my parents' old suitcases, wearing these old clothes, taking these self-portraits and visiting Lagos for the first time, just wanting to take pictures of everything and share Nigeria with people."