Do you think I am to blame for this???
Nita asked me this question many times during the last months. I met her for some fashion pictures, in 2018 but soon after we’ve become close enough that she started to tell me about her life.
Then, one night in November I received this message“I had a terrible day yesterday. Tero beat me up and my dog and I had to call the police. This was last straw :-(“
We met some days later and I asked her if she wanted to talk about what happened, proposing her to do a reportage about her story.
She told me that the violence has been going on since the moment she gave birth. “We’ve always
had a lot of fun and he’s never been violent with me before. He started beating me up and becoming violent after few weeks I came home from the hospital when during an argument he punched me in the stomach.”
I decided to work on this topic because in Finland domestic violence is a big issue. The latest available data paints the conuntry's situation as the second European country for number of domestic violence cases.
With this project I didn't want to focus on the violence itself or on the violent person but rather give space to the victim, Nita, and her twins. I wanted to focus on the consequences of violence and how a person manages to rebuild a life and live with that memory.
Alessandro Rampazzo
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