Jaka Bulc STUDIO ERWIN OLAF 'He never hit her in front of me again' – Donna Ferrato's domestic abuse photos | Art and design For nearly four decades, the photojournalist Donna Ferrato has documented the effects of domestic violence on abused women and their families. Her book and series Living with the Enemy is one of the most important works on the subject. She launched a campaign in 2014 called I Am Unbeatable, which features women who have left their abusers. In 1981, Ferrato was commissioned by Playboy magazine in Japan to document the supposedly hedonistic lifestyle of Elisabeth and Bengt, a couple of New Jersey swingers. Here, she tells the stories behind some of the most potent images in the collection. Bengt Hits Elisabeth, 1982 “This is the moment that changed my life. “Late that night, I heard her screaming. “Philip Jones Griffiths, my then partner and president of Magnum photos, said: ‘Donna, I’ve never seen anything like this, just keep doing it. “I continued to spend time with them. Six-year-old child Diamond shouts at his father as the police arrest him for domestic violence, Minneapolis, 1986
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Faces of war: Kurdistan’s armed struggle against Islamic State The war against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has flooded our daily news with troubling statistics of massacres and mass migrations, yet there are faces and human stories at the heart of the conflict. Joey L wrote: “From Iraq, one crosses the Tigris River into war-torn Syria, and is catapulted into a worldview crafted by the guerrilla.” A water tower overlooking the liberated city of Sinjar, Nineveh governorate, in Iraq on 10 November 2016. Warshin, a survivor of the Yazidi genocide and volunteer YJÊ fighter, in the Nineveh governorate in Iraq “You are welcomed back by familiar faces wearing a palette of earth tones interrupted by a brightly coloured scarf – probably given to them by their mothers. Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) guerrilla members on an armed patrol in the countryside of Makhmur in Iraq. “I could read all the articles, books and social media accounts in the world about what led to the war in Iraq and Syria, but that doesn’t constitute experience.
Benjamin Goss Photography Hirohito Nomoto Photography | ノモトヒロヒト フォトグラフィー The ugly face of beauty | Witness Image India is one of the world’s largest producers of Mica, a silver-coloured, crystalline mineral. An extremely versatile mineral essential for the cosmetics industry, which gives shine to eye shadows, skin foundation and lipsticks. A mineral of inestimable value for companies operating in the cosmetics sector, able to create a turnover of billions of Euros in a market that sees amongst its protagonists China, India, United States and the European Union. The lucrative business of the Mica conceals a shameful secret: the massive use of child labor and women to extract the mineral from dangerous mines.
~ Laurent Seroussi ~ LAURENT SEROUSSI / Photographism Olivier Metzger Photographer Venezuela's revolution of hunger: a photo essay For a time the “Saudi Arabia” of South America, today Venezuela more closely resembles Syria. Economically destroyed and socially unstable, the country is now fighting an ever more alarming spectre: hunger. In the slum of Petare in the metropolitan area of the capital, Caracas, refrigerators remain empty, supermarket queues grow longer and the necessity of procuring something to eat drives young people to violence. Community volunteers serve food to children at a kitchen run by Alimenta la Solidaridad, a local NGO working in Petare, in February 2019. A member of a kidnapping gang watches through the window to avoid a potential police raid. Many come together in armed gangs, plunder houses and shops, rob food from passersby and are paid in foodstuffs. The IMF predicts Venezuela’s inflation rate will reach 10 million per cent in 2019. A woman stares at her empty fridge at her house in Petare. A grandmother feeds her grandchild at a charity kitchen run by volunteers and an NGO. Absolutely.
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