 – On view at the Anchorage Museum through September 13, 2020, “Unheard: A Public Photography and Audio Installation” features the survivors who chose to speak publicly about…){kind=link}
ANCHORAGE, AK (AAPDN) – On view at the Anchorage Museum through September 13, 2020, “Unheard: A Public Photography and Audio Installation” features the survivors who chose to speak publicly about their experiences.
For more than a year, the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica have investigated sexual violence in Alaska, which has the highest rate of sexual assault in the nation, and for some, it is a secret so steeped in everyday life that to discuss it is to disrupt the norm.
The survivors come from all walks of life. Alaskans from ages 23 to 73, men and women, urban and rural and Native and non-Native. People who turned to the criminal justice system, and more often those who didn’t.
Occupying 30 nine-foot panels along the Museum facade, the photography installation also includes recorded audio from most of the people featured and their empowering portraits of sexual assault with their quotes about what happened to them.
The exhibition is a public photography installation that highlights the reporting from an Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica investigative project titled, “Lawless” that revealed Alaska’s two-tiered justice system in which Native villages are denied access to first responders.
This powerful series, which won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Public Service began with brave accounts from survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. Unheard is a platform for them to tell their stories and show their resilience.
For more detail information, see: https://www.anchoragemuseum.org/exhibits/unheard-a-public-photography-and-audio-installation.