Life force: empowering portraits of domestic violence survivors
Chantal Barlow’s grandmother was shot dead by her grandfather in a drunken rampage in 1975. Now, the artist is using her camera to take photographs of 36 domestic violence survivors – one for every year of her grandmother’s life
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A woman with curly silver hair and gleaming white teeth smiles effortlessly for the camera. The word LOVE is spelt out across her T-shirt. Below her, it reads: “On the final day of violence … he jumped on my head and snapped my neck sideways. Left me with a broken jaw … my nose broken, all my teeth kicked out, blood running out of my ears and profoundly deaf.” This is Peggie Rayna, a survivor of domestic violence.
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SOURCE: Photography | The Guardian - Read entire story here.