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"A photo in the worst year of my life"
A video is causing worldwide turmoil right now. It documents one year of life for a woman in 365 frightening images - which are designed to help stop domestic violence.
At the beginning of the video you can see a pretty young woman. She looks neat and cheerful, light make-up graces her face and her eyes look cheeky into the camera. At the end of the video, this woman is disfigured.
The shock video is titled "One photo a day in the worst year of my life". 365 images depict the daily change of a woman who is being abused. Initially, it is only mild injuries, such as a blue eye, which suggest an accident. But even before one injury has healed, the next ones appear - it quickly becomes clear that the woman has to suffer tremendous violence. At the end of the video, bruises and bruises disfigure the victim's face, the once-happy eyes looking blank into the camera. The protagonist holds a Serbian cry for help in the camera: "Help me, I do not know if I can wait until tomorrow."
The video is based on the idea of the photographer Noah Kalina, who daily photographs himself in his project "A photo a day" and thus documents the small changes in the face of a person during his life. Every person changes during a year - such a development as the Serbian video shows, but no one wants to and would not want to experience it. Nevertheless, domestic violence is not an isolated case in reality.
The foundation "B92" would like to draw attention to this, which in cooperation with Serbia's biggest TV station staged the project "A photo in the worst year of my life" to stop domestic violence . The video caused a lot of turmoil on the internet - for a long time it was unclear whether it was a real cry for help or a promotional video. Domestic violence is not only a problem in Southeastern European countries, but still a taboo topic. The number of unreported casualties is highly valued; only a few affected people actually turn to aid agencies. Veran Matic, president of the B92 Foundation, plans to open more women's shelters in Serbia that can offer victims protection and help.
The project aims to help sensitize the Southeast European population to domestic violence and to make it clear that it is by no means normal to beat his wife. After the video became a Youtube success within a few days in Serbia, it now reaches the whole world. It is now known that this is a campaign, but unfortunately it still does represent the reality.
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