So important to share this.
It’s not often – if ever – that you can witness a man grooming a woman to accept battering. We now have a visual record of how one man attempted it. And it may help to warn women away from potential abusers.
Sara Naomi Lewkowicz, a grad student at Ohio University, had planned to study the stigma of being an ex-convict. While at a local Corn Festival she spotted a tattoo-covered man who was gently cuddling a cute little girl. She approached and asked him and his girlfriend if she could photograph them over a period of time for her project, and they agreed.
Our photographer had met the couple only about a month after they’d gotten together. Two and a half months later she photographed Shane as he battered Maggie in their home. And she had already amassed a photographic record of how he had groomed her for…
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It is remarkable how this graduate student captured all of this on camera. I have often wondered how photographers feel when they witness horrors and atrocities. I would love to know what the student’s reflections are on what she witnessed (personal, not professional thoughts).
I appreciate that you shared this.
Jeremy–thank you. I had to pass this on. I do not know if I could ever (or even should) sit passively and take photographs of something like this. It takes a degree of separation and schadenfreude I just don’t have in me. Glad she did it, though, because these images are so very powerful. That one of the little girl in the kitchen is just heartbreaking.
It is a shame the Pultizers go to journalists and scholars but not grad students. The Pulitzer committee should look at those photographs, especially the one you refer to . After all, photographers can win the prize.
Oh, I agree!
And, of course, I would like to know more about what the mother and her children think of what happened.
Yes, exactly. Did you click on the link in the article? It says some, but not enough, about this.
I missed that, actually. I will have to go back and take a look.
Those pictures simply floored me.
I’ve seen too much of it. I’ll be damned if I could take pictures and let it happen.
Yeah, me too.
Thank you for sharing this Susan, I have no words for those photographs,so sad.
They are. he one of the little girl is just…no words for it, really.