PHOTOS: The Powerful Faces Of Women Who Faced Danger
In a new project, photographer Robin Hammond made portraits of women who've lived through fighting and violence. He found pain, sorrow, anger, hope — and even joy.
Fatima, now 17, was eating dinner with her family in Nigeria two years ago when she heard the gunshots. "Unknown to us, the village had been surrounded and was being invaded," she says. "We covered ourselves with [a] mattress and cried for help to no avail." Fatima and her mother fled into the bush, where they were separated; they didn't see each other again for 18 months.
Fatima – and other women in conflict sought to capture the many roles they play in his series of portraits, "Making the Invisible Visible," which had its first public showing this past week at the in Vancouver, Canada.
