Lorena Ros * PHOTOGRAPHER

Multimedia piece/ heroin users russiaOpen Society Institute/Public Health Program

Picture of the Year International 2008Award Of Exellence
Getty Images GrantWinner of the 2008 Getty Images Grant or Editorial Photography
World Press Photo 2008Contemporary Issues: 2 Prize Stories
Survivors from Childhood Sexual Abuse
FotografricaPhotographic workshop with HIV positive women
Swakopmund, Namibia. 2005
Fotopress 2007In that place... Stories of sexual abuse during childhood
Av. Marquès de Comillas, 6-8 08038 Barcelona

SurvivorsStatistics in Spain state that 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 7 boys are victims of sexual abuse before they reach the age of seventeen, but that fewer than 1 in 10 will ever speak about the experience. Child sexual abuse crosses all socio-economic, ethnicity, religious or gender boundaries and has an impact in every community.

This project is based on a series of portraits of adult as survivors of sexual abuse who believe that showing their faces and disclosing their stories to the world will contribute to the prevention of future abuse.

Along with the portraits, the project incorporates photos of sites where the crimes took place, and images of settings that triggered memories of these experiences, that so marked each survivor.

DisfranchisedHIV PositiveLiving positively in Namibia.

An estimated 25 million people are living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa. Rates of infection still on the rise. Only in 2003, 3 million people in the region became newly infected and 2.2 million died.

As of December 2003, women accounted for nearly 57% of the people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.

Gender and cultural inequalities, stigma, ignorance, violence, discrimination contribute to women vulnerability and risk of infection.

Portraits were taken in Swakopmund, Namibia. 2005

Latino GangThe Latin King Nation is one of the largest and oldest gang organizations in the Americas. Its tentacles spread from New York, in the United States of America, down to Ecuador.

Members of the Latin Kings from Ecuador have now migrated to Spain. Finding themselves socially excluded, line gang culture has remained a touchstone central to their life. A large reservoir of new young migrant members are eager to join the Latin Kings, helping them to define a personal identity and their place in society.

The crime and gang fights with the The Nietas (another Latino Gang) are rising in the streets of Madrid and Barcelona.

Forty-four Latin King members were arrested in 2004 with crime and homicide attempt charges.

Pictures were taken in the cities of Madrid and Barcelona, Spain. 2004

Sex Slave Trade

Young Nigerian women take part in the voodoo ceremony, obliged step to take on their dream of coming to Europe. During the juju (voodoo ceremony) an oath of loyalty is signed between a god, the trafficker and the women. The god will keep the womans spirit until she pays the debt to her madam (trafficker).

Having entered Europe illegally they are forced to work on the sex industry in order to pay debs of $50.000 to their madams. The madams control the women through the practice of juju, carried out on them before leaving Nigeria.
Unbreakable bedrock of faith was sign. Failure to pay is the womans death sentence.

Pictures were taken between Benin City in Nigeria, Madrid, Barcelona and Paris. 2002/03

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Talita found out she was HIV positive five years ago.
She blames her boyfriend for her status. Her boyfriend got tested and was positive.
He blames Talita for his HIV status. They are still together.
Talitas daughter from a previous relationship is negative.

hiv6TALITA , 38. SWAKOPMUND.

Talita found out she was HIV positive five years ago.
She blames her boyfriend for her status. Her boyfriend got tested and was positive.
He blames Talita for his HIV status. They are still together.
Talitas daughter from a previous relationship is negative.

hiv5hiv4NELLAO, 20. SWAKOPMUND.

Nelllao became pregnant at the age of 14.
Soon after her baby boy was born she found out that her and the baby were HIV positive.
The fathers baby left her and refused to be tested.
Nellao and her child are on antiretroviral treatment.
Nellao was one of the first women in Namibia to be outspoken about her state.
Today she is a counsellor for people living with HIV

hiv3TABITA , 33. SWAKOPMUND.

A few years ago Tabita tried to commit suicide, burning herself due to the stress
she was getting from her husband.
Soon after that he infected her due to his relationships with other women.
Finally he left her.

hiv2BRENDA, 28. SWAKOPMUND.

Brenda was raped by two men at the age of 22.
She became infected and pregnant.
She didnt breastfeed her son. He is negative.
Two years ago Brendas virus started developing

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