The #SURVIVOR Photo Series Explores What It Looks Like to Survive Trauma
By Joanna C. Valente
Below are 11 photographs from my photo series called #SURVIVOR, which explores what it means to be a survivor, particularly survivors of sexual and domestic trauma, gender trauma, but really, inequalities in any form. I am also exploring what it means for a place and landscape to inhabit trauma just as bodies do, and what trauma does to the earth.
Rebirth
The Ghost Is Gone
Missed
Alien
We Don’t Know What Else to Do So We Just Do What We Can
Everything You Love Dies
Reclaiming
Summoning Power/Losing Power
Is Your Body Ever the Same Again?
Something Holy
Desire/Loss
Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. They are the author of Sirs & Madams, The Gods Are Dead, Marys of the Sea, Sexting Ghosts, Xenos, No(body) (forthcoming, Madhouse Press, 2019), and is the editor of A Shadow Map: Writing by Survivors of Sexual Assault. They received their MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Joanna is the founder of Yes Poetry and the senior managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine. Some of their writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Them, Brooklyn Magazine, BUST, and elsewhere. Joanna also leads workshops at Brooklyn Poets. joannavalente.com / Twitter: @joannasaid / IG: joannacvalente / FB: joannacvalente
