THIS IS MY STORY, TOLD ALONGSIDE THE VOICES OF OTHERS – a collective outcry of shared experience. These images are our statement. May these photographs generate empathy and help build a global community that fights back and no longer stands for silence, violence, or injustice.

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I dedicate this work to the sexual violence survivors of the world who are battling an inner spiral of containment – where the images, memories and feelings within them will never be fully understood by anyone but themselves. This is my artistic way of acknowledging what happened, and closing a chapter on it. As collaborators, each survivor and I came up with a concept for their stories. I am simply a visual interpreter of what they chose to share with me.

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I respected each person’s decision to disclose as much or as little information as they felt comfortable with. In this project, no names will be used unless the survivors themselves stated them during our conversations. Instead, I refer to each participant by ‘colour', to respect their anonymity. Each chapter begins and ends with short descriptions of my personal story, written in italics, and the rest of the chapter is made up of direct quotes from each of the survivors' own stories.