http://www.lorenaros.com/web/ Lorena Ros * PHOTOGRAPHER - Colecciones es Statistics 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. coleccion Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:10:13 +0200 http://www.lorenaros.com/index.php?feed=20 coleccion Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:10:13 +0200 http://www.lorenaros.com/index.php?feed=21 Living 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 coleccion Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:10:13 +0200 http://www.lorenaros.com/index.php?feed=25 The 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 coleccion Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:10:13 +0200 http://www.lorenaros.com/index.php?feed=23 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 coleccion Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:10:13 +0200 http://www.lorenaros.com/index.php?feed=34