Mariella Fuller is a Swiss/Lebanese photo/journalist
who originally went to South Africa when she was commissioned by Marie Claire
Magazine to do a piece on infant rape. It was to take her 3 days. What she discovered profoundly moved her, and
now some eight years later she is still there working documenting the child abuse that is so prevalent there and is
about to publish a book this year of her work.
Gail Tibben is an independent photographer who has
been working in Jerusalem for the past decade.
She has been exploring the theme of religion, documenting the various
Christian denominations in Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulchre, baptism in the River
Jordan, the ancient Samiritans and Ethiopian Christianity. As a photo/journalist working in the city she
also closely covers the atrocities such as car-bombings even when it means
putting her own life at risk. Working as
a woman there gets in that entrenched society seems to get harder especially
now with the Ultra-Orthodox Jews taking such extreme stances.
Adriana Zehbrauskas is a Brazlian photographer working
in Mexico on a Project on Faith. Her rough inner city patch included the
fervent religious folk ( as evidenced in her wonderful coverage of 'The Day of
The Dead Festival') to out and out macho gangsters. Her ‘guide’ who took around
lived in a 10 ft sq. room with her large family, and yet seemed perfectly
content that as this was ‘God’s will’.
The movie is the work of Miami local filmmaker/film
school professor Jim Virga, and he really made this a cohesive and thoroughly engrossing
piece by simply letting the women tell their own stories in their own
words. Excellently edited it’s a
powerful film about three dedicated and totally committed women that were a joy
to watch and for some 76 minutes share their stories.
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