Violence Against Women

Walter Astrada doesn’t view his four-chapter project, Violence Against Women, as a story about a serious problem for women. Though it is. “It’s not a woman’s problem. It’s a societal problem” said Mr. Astrada. “If 50 percent of a country can be beaten, raped, killed or tortured, then it’s not a free country, it’s not a democracy, no matter how developed it is.” Mr. Astrada started the project in 2006 in Guatemala, where over 600 women were murdered that year. He then documented sexual violence in war torn Congo, where hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been brutally raped. In India he focused on the low status of women and on female infanticide