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living with the enemy

no início deste ano pedi emprestado o livro "Living with the enemy" da Donna Ferrato e foi um estalo na cara. andei com o livro vários dias na minha mochila pois para além das fotografias a Donna Ferrato também escreve e a leitura é obrigatória.

"Ferrato rode over 6,000 hours with police around the country to get some of the photographs in Living With the Enemy. In the introduction to Living With the Enemy, Ferrato writes, “Much of the book was born out of frustration — first, because I felt powerless in the face of the violence I had seen, and second, because for a long time no magazine would publish the pictures. It was only when I received the W. Eugene Smith Award in 1986 that magazine editors began to take the project seriously.” Ferrato felt the problem had been concealed from public view for too long and it was important to show as many aspects of the problem as she could. Some of the names in the book were changed, but all of the photographs and stories are real."

Foi uma agradável surpresa ter descoberto há uns dias um novo site dedicado ao combate da violência doméstica, sendo este assente no trabalho da Donna Ferrato que há muitos anos trabalha para dar voz ao que acontece dentro de quatro paredes. No site poderão ver algumas estórias que Donna revisitou passados anos, agora este trabalho chama-se: "Living without the enemy" vejam aqui o porquê.

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www.abuseaware.com, site dedicated to stop domestic violence. the web site is based on the work of of Donna Ferrato: Living the enemy

living with the enemy

Living with the enemy (www.abuseaware.com)
© Donna Ferrato

"Living with the Enemy is a book that is difficult to pick up and impossible to put down. It is a book that will completely transform assumptions about battered women and the men who abuse them."
Elizabeth Hess, The Women's Review of Books

porque hoje é o Dia Internacional da Não Violência contra as Mulheres deixo-vos aqui o link para o trabalho da fotógrafa Donna Ferrato, obrigatório de se ver com olhos de ouvir: www.abuseaware.com

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Incompleto. Trata apenas da violência sobre as mulheres.