The work done by Melissa Kreider is extremely important but often over looked. In this work she captures photos of sexual violence sites and further explores how these situations are handled and documented with public information from the police force. I found this work to be moving and because almost all of the sites she captured were of homes, whether houses, apartments or condos of sorts. By her photographing this brings awareness in a different form than usual that most sexual abuse and violence happens in an individual's home, where they are supposed to feel the safest and most comfortable. Unfortunately her photos show that in many cases that is not the truth.
I also felt that there was and underlying effect of her photos touching on the fact that whats on the outside is not the same as what is assumed on the inside. From her photos of the homes, a viewer would have no idea that they were site of sexual violence, which I feel is a large part of Greider's reason for this work. I think this is so important because it shows this in a different way than sexual violence usually is and it has just as much of more of an impact as when statistics are just stated as facts to raise awareness.
https://www.aint-bad.com/article/2016/09/09/melissa-kreider/
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