Beautiful Women of Skid Row

We are a group of photographers from a Skid Row Photography Club that felt it was time that the women in skid row were shown in a positive manner and began to gather them in a nice environments provide make-up good lighting and capture them in a naturally beautiful moment in their other wise troubled and turbulent lives. However during our first shot I discovered that in a group of 15 women 12 acknowledged they had been rapped as children and that this had a life long impact that was never truly addressed, at that moment I saw that it was not enough to simply take a good picture I had to find a way to help at the very least to bring awareness that this all too often undressed issue must come to light, I had to do more, I had to tell the stories of these often times courageous women who to themselves thought the challenges and obstacles they hurtled did in fact make each of them my hero’s, my champions, survivors and potential inspirations for those ladies that are still in the grips of being targeted and then victimized, this type of personal, mental, verbal and physical abuse must come to a halt.
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