Donna Ferrato, Founder Domestic Abuse Awareness, Inc.
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| Gender | Female |
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| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | Founder Domestic Abuse Awareness, Inc. Photographer |
| Location | New York, New York, United States |
| Introduction | Twenty-five years ago, while working on a story about a couple in love, photojournalist Donna Ferrato saw a man beat his wife. Until then she thought the greatest threat of danger to women came from strangers. Suddenly her eyes were opened to the darker side of family life. The experience changed her life as a photographer.Her photographs bring us to the homes of battered women, to emergency rooms, shelters, courtrooms, activist rallies, batterers' groups and women's detention centers. Collected in her exhibition and publication LIVING WITH THE ENEMY (Aperture, 1991), these groundbreaking pictures are paired with texts by Ferrato drawn from her conversations with the victims and perpetrators of abuse.Today DAA is internationally recognized as the visual resource and communication center on domestic violence. DAA's photographs have been shown in over 1,000 schools and galleries, television programs, billboards, newspapers and magazines throughout the United States, Canada and abroad. |