Image Number: APN295272
Title: Life After Rape. Survivor Portrait Series.
Path:
african.pictures /
Independent Photographers /
George Philipas
Description: Beautiful and Wonderful Woman.. “I am a rape survivor and to me that means I am a powerful woman. A beautiful and confident woman who survives this ordeal in life. . He thought I would not survive. He thought he had won. He thought I was finished. He took my virginity, my strength, my power, my love, but most importantly my dignity. When he did that, he thought he had won – taken it all at the end of the day – all the strength, all the power, all the love and especially all the dignity. But who am I to give myself up? To give up my beauty? Who am I to give up my power, my strength and my dignity. I am a wonderful and powerful woman.. Women are like trees. They only need to find their strength. A tree can lose its leaves, it’s branches and stems, but the thing about a tree is that its roots remain, where no-one can dig or reach. Because it is the roots that are the essential tool of life. When the rainy season comes again, the roots absorb the water, the leaves begin t
Collections: Independent Photographers
Subcollections:
George Philipas
Country: South Africa
Location: Cape Town
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 3605 x 4807
Media Id: 3_2033
Credit: George Philipas / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
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