Fine Art: Conceptual (AMATEUR) - HONORABLE MENTION
Do you know what happened to you?
Photo © AMENA YASSINE
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Every four minutes a woman is victim of violence in Brazil. The past May, 2016, Brazilians were shocked with a gang rape against a 16 year-old girl that was recorded and put up on the internet. My first body of work, “Do you know what happened to you?” is an attempt to raise awareness to the problem of gender-based violence. Between 2015 and 2016, I researched on police records of women victims of psychological and physical violence in Brazil.
The work does not aim at telling one story. To the contrary, the viewer will be left with unanswered questions as to what actually happened. Often times, this is the feeling that victims of violence themselves have – even during their own ordeal, as if in denial. Am I really undergoing this? Did this really happen to me? – I remember asking when I also found myself in the situation of being a woman victim of violence when traveling along the coast of Brazil, in 2013.
I used a variety of formats (point and shoot Yashica Kyocera and 35mm Nikon FM) and employed the photographic tradition of staged scenes combined with pictures of remnants of real crime scenes. LensCulture's review of the project on August 6th, 2016, stated the following: "Your approach to the theme is very effective. The disturbing effect of the combination between staged and real pictures forces the viewers to question themselves and to go deeper into the meanings and messages of your work".
“Do you know what happened to you?” received an Honorable Mention at the 2016 Annual Juried Photography Competition of the Baxter Street at the Camera Club of New York in July. The project will be published as a book at the opening of a collective exhibit at ICP on December 9th.
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Every four minutes a woman is victim of violence in Brazil. The past May, 2016, Brazilians were shocked with a gang rape against a 16 year-old girl that was recorded and put up on the internet. My first body of work, “Do you know what happened to you?” is an attempt to raise awareness to the problem of gender-based violence. Between 2015 and 2016, I researched on police records of women victims of psychological and physical violence in Brazil.
The work does not aim at telling one story. To the contrary, the viewer will be left with unanswered questions as to what actually happened. Often times, this is the feeling that victims of violence themselves have – even during their own ordeal, as if in denial. Am I really undergoing this? Did this really happen to me? – I remember asking when I also found myself in the situation of being a woman victim of violence when traveling along the coast of Brazil, in 2013.
I used a variety of formats (point and shoot Yashica Kyocera and 35mm Nikon FM) and employed the photographic tradition of staged scenes combined with pictures of remnants of real crime scenes. LensCulture's review of the project on August 6th, 2016, stated the following: "Your approach to the theme is very effective. The disturbing effect of the combination between staged and real pictures forces the viewers to question themselves and to go deeper into the meanings and messages of your work".
“Do you know what happened to you?” received an Honorable Mention at the 2016 Annual Juried Photography Competition of the Baxter Street at the Camera Club of New York in July. The project will be published as a book at the opening of a collective exhibit at ICP on December 9th.
About author:
Brazilian photographer of Palestinian origins. She has lived and studied in Brasília, London, the Hague and, currently, New York, where she obtained a degree at the International Center for Photography (2015).BACK TO GALLERY
