Video: Telling the Truth: Scary Photos of Congo War Victims by Sarah Fretwell
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
To carry out a photo project The Truth Told Project, Sarah Fretwell traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and filmed women and girls who were innocent victims of the civil war there. According to Fretwell, the political confrontation in the country has become at the same time a "war of the sexes" - in which women by default lose.
Sarah Fretwell puts photography above all other forms of art, because she can speak to those who would not otherwise be heard. Having familiarized herself with the terrible statistics, according to which, during wartime in the Congo, "every minute another woman or girl is subjected to violence," the photographer decided that it was Congolese women who deserved the right to vote.
In total, Sarah Fretwell spent fifty days in the Congo. During this time, she was confronted with countless tragic, frightening stories from the daily lives of Congolese girls. In each photo, you can read something about the story of the heroine or hero. From these inscriptions, the viewer will learn what it is like for these people and what "better life" they dream about.
The status of a woman raped during wartime is extremely precarious in Congolese society. As a rule, everyone around her turns away from her, her husband and parents refuse. According to Sarah Fretwell, who studied the issue in detail, "rape was originally used by military groups as a fearsome tactic." However, it has become a goal, not a method - with the help of their inhuman behavior, armed men of the Congo consolidate their superiority over the defenseless weaker sex.
Artists and photographers often step on the fine line separating their craft from military journalism: he tried to comprehend the Syrian civil war in his works Tamam Azzam, Cambodian - Al Farrow … Sarah Fretwell, to her credit, not only exploits the painful topic, but with the help of her photo cycle tries to draw international attention to the dire situation in Congo and actively cooperates with humanitarian charitable foundations.
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