LensCulture and the Commodification of Rape
Where to begin? Magnum Photos and LensCulture are running a photo competition. One of those where you give them lots of money and in return if you’re one of the lucky ones they give you "exposure".
TIME Rape Victim Cover Photo Slammed as ‘Exploitative’
TIME's latest international issue features a portrait of a rape victim of the civil war in South Sudan. The magazine's choice of photo is sparking an outcry online, with people calling the cover "exploitative."
Mumbai Photographer’s Sexual Assault-Themed Fashion Shoot Sparks Social Media Firestorm
Mumbai-based photographer Raj Shetye currently finds himself the focus of the kind of social media ire that nobody wants to experience. The source of this outrage is a fashion photo shoot he recently published on Behance (it has since been removed) that depicts an Indian woman fending off the advances of several men on a bus.
Incredibly Moving Photo Book Documents Child Sexual Abuse in South Africa
Editor's Note: None of the images in this post are graphic, but the content and captions might be upsetting to some.
The realities revealed by photography are not always of the pleasant variety, because for all of the sunsets and kittens and weddings in the world -- all wonderful and worth capturing -- there is suffering and horror and pain that is just as worthy of our photographic attention.
Photographer Mariella Furrer has spent over a decade of her photographic career focusing on the latter, documenting the stories of the survivors and families of child sexual abuse in South Africa.
Fake Craigslist ‘Photographer’ Jailed on Rape Charges
A Miami man has been arrested after allegedly posing as a photographer on Craigslist to lure two women to a remote spot and then assault them.
Anthony Molina-Iglesias, 30, faces charges of sexual battery, armed sexual battery, kidnapping and carjacking.