Winners of the Alfred Fried Photography Award 2015

Winners of the Alfred Fried Photography Award 2015 from 文堯王

1. 1 Winners of the Alfred Fried Photography Award 2015
2. 2 Look at Me, I am Beautiful. Winner: Patricia Willocq, Belgium
3. Everywhere in the world, women are vulnerable from a very young age. They struggle to put an end to domestic abuse, they fight for their rights, for equality, for justice and for freedom from violence. For years, the city of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, witnessed horrific war crimes and sexual violence used as a weapon of war against children and women and perhaps even men. In recent years, more and more local initiatives and international programmes have been developed to help survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence during war to reintegrate society and take back control of their lives. In this series of pictures you discover the life of Esther, a little girl born of rape, going through all the big milestones of her life: her birth, her first steps, her first day at school, her wedding, her first day as a mother, etc. Esther is surrounded by men who support her and protect her. Freedom from violence. All the children you see in the pictures are born of rape…all the women have been involved in sexual abuse. But they are victims no more! They are survivors, beautiful survivors, who want the world to look at them as such! This work was produced in August 2014 to promote peace and to support the work a local NGO (HOLD DRC) who empowers children born of rape and women survivors of sexual violence! 3

Sweet girls 2015