Walter Astrada spent most of the last five years researching the facts, collecting, photographing, and providing financing to complete his ambitious project - Wrap in the violence, which are exposed daily to women around the world. At first he used only their own funds, but then won World Press for one of his photos. In addition, he is a Fellow of the grant Revela Oleiros in 2008 (the money went for the photo shoot in the Congo) and Alexia Foundation grant in 2009.
At the recent Festival of Photojournalism Visa POUR L'Image, Astrada received a grant from the Getty Foundation in the amount of $ 20,000, which will allow him to complete his project. He's going to work in Norway, "to demonstrate that even in Western democracies, where women enjoy legal equality and financial parity, they suffer from violence."
(19 photos)
1. Guatemala: Jocelyn Saray Perez Hidalgo, 15, sued her boyfriend twenty-seven, 21 November 2006.
2. Guatemala: a woman screaming men in Puerto San Jose, April 5, 2007.
3. Guatemala: Maria Esperanza Gutierrez, 32, was killed by a man neizvestynm November 19, 2006.
4. Guatemala: the deceased relatives of Samantha Noemi Fernandez Baten, 22, during her funeral, on November 19, 2006.
5. Guatemala: twenty-two Samantha's funeral Noemi Fernandez Baten, who received 12 gunshot wounds near his home, 19 November 2006.
6. Guatemala: Brenda Medina prepares otproazdnovat his birthday in a shelter for women victims of violence in the city Kvettsalenango, March 23, 2007.
