An Italian Photographer Student's Sensibility

An Italian student with a passion for photography feels really involved in the topic of this project and gave the teacher some photos of hers, with a description for each of the 4 photos. The following are her words:

These photos are part of my portfolio dedicated to violence on women.

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1. Title: STOP TO VIOLENCE!

This photo doesn’t need an explication: it talks by itself.I know it isn’t easy to talk about violence, but the women must find the strength to denounce what happens to them to specialised people, like psychologists,  social workers and justice.

In this photo I didn’t use the high ISO because I didn’t want to have a particular photo effect: I wanted to recreate a clouded atmosphere. This effect represent two different realities: on the one hand, men, clouded by bad emotions, lose their reason and control and, in these mad moments, they violate women; on the other hand women are afraid to talk about.

    2.   Title: DELICATE WOMAN

This photograph shows a woman become delicate and vulnerable as she suffers violence.

In fact, the woman in the photo is in a fetal position that reminds the baby in the belly of the mother.

I am the model.

The abused women very often hide the truth and invent false apologises.

   3. Title: DON'T TALK

This photo describes a situation in which the majority of women in this situation is.

They are afraid of talking, because they feel threatened by men.

This picture touch more my sensibility because the hand belongs to my father and the woman is Mummy.

I can’t think that the situation is real, I can’t think this situation is near me, because I believe that a man, who protects me and that I trust in, can’t use violence on a woman because “thanks to a woman he is in the world”.

   4.  Title: THE CHILD BRIDE

I am very fond of this photo, because the model is my little sister.

I think that this photo is really important even if it isn’t an Italian tradition, I felt touched by this unjustice spread in other parts of the world. I’ve heard about it from the media and internet.

I decided to represent a European child because the people who look at this photo can understand that this cruelty, though far from us, can affect us all if we don’t act now.

These photos have been made by Slovak students, but they would rather make more positive photos