Mission

An art project of 16 images to highlight and change opinions towards historical and current tendencies toward victim blaming, especially in cases of sexual and gender based violence. This project has been developed alongside and supported by the charity STARS (www.starsdorset.org) and the faculty of psychology and law at Bournemouth University, as part of my MA Commercial Photography research at Arts University Bournemouth. Each 'mug shot' image represents a different decade (shot accordingly, from wet plate collodian, to modern methods and contains a 'crime' such as 'wore red' or 'swiped right', which we invite viewers to question. There is also a short video containing educational messages about victim's natural responses to threatening situations and challenging rape myths and victim blaming. We are launching the project in February 2020 for Sexual Violence Awareness Week and have 3 exhibitions already booked. We hope to send press releases to national press and get as much PR for the project as possible, to help reach as many people as possible.

Category

Education and Skills

Additional Information

We are searching for a grant to help towards the costs of the exhibitions themselves and the literature associated with it. The creation of the project and materials have so far been self-funding through personal fundraising efforts. We are also keen to work with partners to help publicise and disseminate the work to 'get it seen'. There is a project website in production. Thank you