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Helping the People Beyond the Pain
Donna Ferrato started out photographing pleasure. She ended up confronting pain.
While following the story of sexual adventurers, she stood stunned in the bathroom doorway of a New Jersey mansion while a man screamed at his wife. As he pulled back his right arm, Ms. Ferrato raised her camera and took a picture. As he slapped his wife in the face, she closed her eyes — and took another frame.
She saw herself in the mirrors as she kept photographing. But when he hauled off to strike her again, Ms. Ferrato grabbed the man’s arm and told him to stop.
“I said: ‘What are you doing? You are really going to hurt her,’ ” she said. “He threw me down and said: ‘I’m not going to hurt her — she’s my wife. I know what my strength is but I have to teach her that she can’t lie to me.’ ”
That moment changed Ms. Ferrato’s life, leading to a decade photographing domestic violence and culminating in the book “Living With the Enemy.” Equally important, it set her on a long career as an advocate for battered women, helping to change how abuse is viewed and how it is handled by doctors and law enforcement officers.
While following the story of sexual adventurers, she stood stunned in the bathroom doorway of a New Jersey mansion while a man screamed at his wife. As he pulled back his right arm, Ms. Ferrato raised her camera and took a picture. As he slapped his wife in the face, she closed her eyes — and took another frame.
She saw herself in the mirrors as she kept photographing. But when he hauled off to strike her again, Ms. Ferrato grabbed the man’s arm and told him to stop.
“I said: ‘What are you doing? You are really going to hurt her,’ ” she said. “He threw me down and said: ‘I’m not going to hurt her — she’s my wife. I know what my strength is but I have to teach her that she can’t lie to me.’ ”
That moment changed Ms. Ferrato’s life, leading to a decade photographing domestic violence and culminating in the book “Living With the Enemy.” Equally important, it set her on a long career as an advocate for battered women, helping to change how abuse is viewed and how it is handled by doctors and law enforcement officers.
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/helping-the-people-beyond-the-pain/?_r=0#/1/
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