Donna Ferrato - Living with the Enemy

27;For over twenty years, Donna Ferrato has been documenting the effects of domestic violence on abused women and their children. Photographing in emergency rooms and shelters, courtrooms and activist rallies, batterers' groups and women's detention centers, Ferrato aims to expose "the dark side of family life." Collected in the exhibition and publication "Living with the Enemy" (Aperture, 1991), these groundbreaking pictures are paired with texts by the photographer drawn from her conversations with the victims and perpetrators of abuse. In addition to a selection of prints from "Living with the Enemy," ICP also maintains an extensive archive of Ferrato's own research materials related to domestic violence as well as to the genesis of this ambitious and ongoing photographic project.
44 Items
  • Lisa and Garth
  • Woman crying on phone
  • Emergency room. As doctors discovered tire marks across her chest,... Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Two days later, still in the hospital, and unable to hold down any food in her bruised stomach, Diane examines her face... Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • The police report went like this... 7:30 a.m. Squad 510 received call of assault in progress... Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Graduation photo
  • In America, every fifteen seconds a woman is beaten by someone she has been intimate with...
  • Woman with shadow of policeman
  • Woman being photographed
  • Policeman with pamphlet
  • Man yelling at policeman
  • Man being arrested
  • Polaroids of abused woman
  • Woman holding her lip
  • Outside of shelter
  • Woman with babies in shelter/bed
  • Woman thinking about calling
  • Woman with her baby, eyes closed
  • Woman and children with mural
  • Woman and her children/mother with car
  • Woman dancing in shelter
  • Policeman with binoculars
  • Policeman with woman talking about stalker
  • Woman on bed with gun
  • Self-defense class
  • Woman abuser
  • Men's group
  • Given that sexual problems are related to violence between couple it is not surprising that the most deadly room in the house is the bedroom... Denver, Colorado
  • Judicial system
  • Charlotte Fedders
  • Hedda Nussbaum
  • Ernie and Brianna
  • Woman at graveyard
  • Two coffins
  • Woman holding her mouth
  • Jail
  • Janice's husband's beatings were merciless.... Boulder, Colorado
  • Rachel, who arrived at the Women's Advocates shelter with a broken tailbone from a severe beating, comforts Donna... St. Paul, Minnesota
  • In the past many women bore their husband's brutality in silence... Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Polaroid photographs taken of Diane by emergency room nurse document the extent of her injuries... Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • At the Woman Against Abuse shelter a mother and son wait for a phone call... Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • His mother was beaten by her husband while the five-year-old son watched... Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Lisa was sitting alone in the darkened side of the house... Westchester County, New York
  • Jane recalled the night she was beaten: "With my friends, he acted nasty. But he always treated me like a queen..." Minneapolis, Minnesota