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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.