Photo Stories Documenting Abuse

September 19, 2024
12:00–13:15PM EDT

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Young teenagers play in a park close to the protection house. As part of the psychological support activities, enjoying green outdoor areas allows them to experience normality away from the violence of which they have been victims. Quito, Ecuador July 27, 2023. © David Diaz Arcos

This series showcases recent work from members of VII Community. Every few months, VII Insider invites photographers from VII Community to present their stories. In this episode, we look at three photography projects that documenting human rights violations.

VII Community provides ongoing education and support to a network of VII Academy alumni and Foundry Photojournalism Workshop participants. VII Community is a program of The VII Foundation in partnership with PhotoWings.

We are delighted to be joined by Ecuadorian photographer David Diaz Arcos, who will present his project “Bird’s Nest” telling the stories of young adolescent women who are survivors of sexual exploitation in Ecuador.

Italian photographer Viviana Peretti, currently based in Colombia, will discuss her series “Searching for Lost Lives” sharing a light on the people who forcibly disappeared in Colombia.

Iranian photographer Shirin Abedi, who grew up and lives in Hanover, will showcase “Invisible Students” which investigates the long-term effects of school bullying in Germany.

The event will be moderated by Dr. David Campbell, Education Director of The VII Foundation.

Join us on September 19th at 12:00 PM EDT / 18:00 PM CEST. The talk will be followed by a Q&A session.

A recording of this conversation will be available in our Video Collection, shortly after the event.

Forty-seven year old Sandra Cristina Arteaga carries a wooden urn where she hopes the remains of his brother Hector Emilio will one day rest. Hector, 30 years old, disappeared from his home in Medellin in 2005. To date, Sandra Cristina has attended five exhumations where she hoped she would finally find the remains of his brother who, according to investigations, was killed, thrown into the Medellín River and then buried as an unidentified body in El Jardín Cemetery Universal of Medellín where victims of extrajudicial crimes were often buried, unregistered, in mass graves, evading discovery and accountability for those responsible. The last exhumation, which took place in July 2016, was not successful and Sandra Cristina went home with an empty urn. Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia, July 2016. © Viviana Peretti

Participants

David Diaz Arcos

David Diaz Arcos (Quito, 1987) is a visual storyteller based in Ecuador. He produces photographic and audiovisual content focusing on edu-communication, human rights, and territory. He has published his work in National Geographic, BBC News, The Washington Post, NPR, El País, Amnesty Press, G1 Global News, Bloomberg L.P., Clarín, Bistandsaktuelt, and DulceEquisNegra magazine, among others. Diaz Arcos is a member of Diversify Photo and The Everyday Projects and an alumnus of the VII Academy.

Dr. David Campbell

David Campbell is the Director of VII Insider and the Education Director at The VII Foundation. David is an internationally-experienced, globally-minded communications, media and politics professional with a uniquely varied history of strategy, management, analysis and writing within government, academia, and non-government organizations (NGOs).

Shirin Abedi

Shirin Abedi is a documentary photographer interested in topics such as emancipation, shame, and love. Shirin was born in 1996 in Tehran, Iran, and grew up in Hanover, Germany, where she still lives today. She received the Inge Morath Award from the Magnum Foundation in 2023. Shirin is also a grantee of Journalism Fund, Stiftung Kunstfonds and VG Bild Kunst, and her work has been exhibited internationally in Germany, France, Finland, Estonia and Bangladesh.

Viviana Peretti

Viviana Peretti is an Italian photographer based in Bogotá, Colombia, interested in long-term and in-depth stories about marginalized communities and human rights violations. Her work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London, the MACRO Museum in Rome, the Museo Archivo de la Fotografía in Mexico City, and the Centre of Remembrance, Peace and Reconciliation (CMPR) in Bogotà, among others. Her photographs have been published by several international media outlets, including The New York Times, Newsweek, BBC, CNN, Vice, and Granta.

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