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015_Anumukherjee: a roommate, jealous of her beauty and in debt for numerous arrears, tried to kill her by pouring acid on her face. Anumukherjee suffered 22 surgeries, but lost both eyes. The assailant was convicted and unprepared for ten years, now she is free. Knowing of my photographic project, and eager to be part of it, Anumukherjee, who lives outside the immense megalopolis of Delhi, traveled accompanied for over three hours (plus three more to return home).
Acid attack survivors - India
Organization: Freelance
Photographer: Erberto Zani
Organization: Freelance
Exhibit Title: Acid attack survivors - India
Location: India
This photo are part of the long term documentary project “Survivors” about acid attack survivors around the world. Until now I worked in Bangladesh, India and Uganda, but are almost 40 the countries where these criminal attacks happens. I almost always try to interview and photograph the survivors inside their homes, to make them feel more comfortable. They all suffered attacks aimed at destroying their identity, bringing not only visible impairments, but also deep psychological scars. Disfigured with industrial acid by neighbors, relatives or boyfriends-husbands for economic reasons or senseless jealousies, these people are forced to survive for years at borders of society.
Often they are considered guilty for their look, impure creatures to leave in the shadows. Destroying the face of a person using acid, criminals don’t want kill, they prefer erase the identity of victims by a kind of black mark to show inevitably every day to the society: is not a coincidence if many survivors, especially women, prefer kill themself.
The body of my reportage is “one portrait, one story.
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