Woman captures domestic abuse in 'a photo a day' video. take note of my edit, people

[seabeyond]

Last edited Tue Nov 5, 2013, 09:18 PM - Edit history (4)

edited to add....

Published on Mar 21, 2013


Woman captures domestic abuse in 'a photo a day' video

The heart-wrenching video entitled "One Photo a Day in The Worst Year of my Life", features a woman who appears to be a victim of violence and takes a picture of herself everyday for an entire year. Whether the video is real or is part of a domestic violence campaign is unclear.

i went back to youtube to see if i could find more to the story. i didnt read "more" on the youtube page. and i would really hate to mislead with such a compelling video. so take it for what it is.

third edit: http://www.democraticunderground.com/125528869#post12 . this is a abuse campaign. lumberjack jeff brought some good information into this thread. as i said in another post, i am not a fan in not clearly posting campaign as opposed to reality. but... i still think it is a good video for those of us that have never experienced domestic violence.

[mikeysnot]

1. Holy shit!

[seabeyond]

2. ya. that. nt

[roguevalley]

19. her beautiful eyes just die by the end. if that were my baby I would kill me someone and

mulch their sorry carcass.

[idwiyo]

3. That's horrific.

[ismnotwasm]

4. Good Lord that's horrible

And you know what I was thinking? That is only her face that we're seeing, not the rest of her body.

[Deep13]

6. yes

[seabeyond]

7. true that. i didnt even think about that. i was seeing the escalation. and how at a point, healing

was not even allowed before another attack.

[Deep13]

5. Guilty! Felony assault. 5 years.

No, it never made it any better when I was actually prosecuting either. I really hate men like that. Cowardice. Betrayal of trust, of oaths if they were married. That's on top of the physical pain and constant fear and humiliation on the part of the victim.

He doesn't love you. If he did, he would not do this. It's not you, it's him.

Call the police. Use the law to be rid of him.

If the law won't listen, then flee. Take the kids with you. No, it isn't right, but it is better than ending up dead.

Because that is what will eventually happen. He will kill you.

Whatever the financial repercussions are for turning him in, they are better than ending up as a corpse.

[seabeyond]

8. SAY IT!!!

thank you deep

[Deep13]

9. You're welcome. I hate men like this. nt

[Warpy]

27. Thank you for being in the trenches

and thank you for any of the scumsucking cowards you managed to put into prison.

The photos show escalating violence very clearly. It always does escalate, if not against the woman, then against their children.

[Deep13]

32. I'm glad I did. Also glad I'm not doing it now.

I had to defend the convictions of major felonies when the defense appealed, so I got the worst case. A lot of these domestic abuse cases only came to our attention because friends or emergency room personnel reported injuries that were too serious to hide. In a lot of those cases, the victims recanted and testified for the defense, but there was no way to explain away the injury photos, xrays, and testimony of those who saw the injuries.

[abelenkpe]

10. Please tell me she left him

And is safe now.

[Lobo27]

11. I'm no expert at face reading, but

man as the pics went on you could see the happiness sucked out of her... Damn it that was heart wrenching... I hope she left that piece of shit for her safety and her children if any are involved.

[Deep13]

13. Yes, I noticed that. Also, the injuries got worse and more frequent. nt

[lumberjack_jeff]

12. From upworthy

http://www.upworthy.com/why-millions-of-people-can-t-take-their-eyes-off-this-woman?c=bl3

Telegraph.ru has a story on their site reports that the subject is philologist, translator and model Mia Hujić.



This was a video campaign created by the anti-domestic-violence organization, Sigurna kuća, which means Safe House in Croatian.

http://www.b92.net/eng/news/comments.php?nav_id=85400

[Deep13]

14. A philologist? That is not an easy field.

Helps deconstruct the myth that violence only happens to poor, uneducated women.

[lumberjack_jeff]

16. According to Mia

http://www.b92.net/eng/news/comments.php?nav_id=85400

“The fact that media in Canada, France, Italy and the entire region reported about the video shows that this problem is not only present in our country. In just two days we made such an effect that almost the entire world wanted to see who the girl from the video was,” the B92 Fund Board of Directors president explained.

Mia Hujić, who played the abused girl in the video, says she decided to help the campaign because she had friends who had faced domestic violence.

“I had an opportunity to present those people, women and men, and to start something, even if it was only a video. It does not matter if it was my face or a face of a woman who was really beaten but had not strength to show it, because who would want to show up beaten in front of a camera. This is a very sensitive issue, I have invested a lot in this and I hope that such a reaction of the people, which is extraordinary – three million in just five or six days, will remain after the statement that this is a campaign for chances, big changes,” Hujić said.

Direct Media PR’s Marija Grulović says the company tried to contribute to the raising the awareness of the public and that this was the reason they joined the campaign.

[seabeyond]

23. thank you for bringing the information on the campaign. nt

[Warpy]

26. Thank you for the information

I suspected it was a model but I've seen the real thing often enough in friends and coworkers that I wasn't quite sure.

It captured the escalation of domestic violence beautifully. I wish they'd show it everywhere. It is everybody's problem.

[seabeyond]

28. i am glad that it is a good representation of reality. thanks for letting us know.

there were points in it that had all of us sit up and notice. so though a creation, it is illustrated correctly that allows us to recognize more, visually, what goes on.

[Deep13]

33. Wait, this is a hoax? nt

[seabeyond]

34. you didnt "take note" of my edit, did you. i know.

i got to the poster that wanted to know if she left the man. i went back into youtube to see if there was more info. you have to open up "more" and i put it in my thread. then later lumberjack came in with this info. i update a third time

sorry. i thought they should have made it clear, too. not a fan of this.

[lumberjack_jeff]

35. It's a misunderstanding. I wouldn't call it a hoax.

It was a PSA made for the serbian organization dealing with domestic violence in that country to graphically portray the harm.

When it leapt to viral video, I think the context was lost.

For disambiguation, the video probably should have incorporated the logo of the organization or a link I suppose.

[seabeyond]

36. i heard it had gone viral, so ya, that is probably what had happened. but, thanks again for

the info. that is how powerful it is that it took off like that.

[Lucky Luciano]

15. At first I thought, "wow, this is really bad, but it is all flying...

...flying by so fast, but maybe too fast to make the point it needs to make because the injuries would heal so fast and one would only see it as a quick flash. "

Then, at the end my jaw dropped. What was extremely bad became horrific and depraved. That bastard needs a taste of his own medicine - perhaps an overdose if said medicine.

[blackspade]

17. Assuming it's real, the person that did this to her is an asshole....

That should be dropped to the bottom of the ocean.

[lumberjack_jeff]

18. It is not "real".

http://www.b92.net/eng/news/comments.php?nav_id=85400

It was part of an awareness campaign funded by the B92 fund and produced by Saatchi and Saatchi for Safe House Serbia.

[ismnotwasm]

20. Well that's certainly enlightening

Now explain how that matters.

[blackspade]

30. Then it is a very powerful add to raise awareness of a horrid problem.

[lumberjack_jeff]

31. Agree. n/t

[ismnotwasm]

21. Don't worry Sea

This is from an awareness program that went viral.

I went looking and found tons of "real ones" I don't think anyone would appreciate my posting them here.

[seabeyond]

22. it was amazing the changes going on. it is an eye opener for people like me, that have never

experienced things like this. i went back looking when a poster asked if she left the man. that is when i saw i needed to hit more, to get more of the story. i do appreciate the info lumberjack brought to this thread. and i will update again.

but... though i do not like false leads, and i think it should have been clearly marked, i think it is important to see.

[ismnotwasm]

24. There a couple of documentaries

Including one where the photographer was highly criticized for not stopping the abuse, I just posted a thread about Donna Ferrato, who has been documenting abuse for years

[William769]

25. That just breaks my heart.

[Inkfreak]

29. That's a powerful video right there.

I'm going to share it on Facebook. It seems to me this could/should go viral in a big way.