When I was eleven, I met photographer Y*, a family friend who groomed and sexually abused me. This project tells my experience in both words and images. It shows the sexualization of young girls and the secretive dynamic between groomer and victim.
Photographer Y* would start calling me ‘his sweet little baby bird’.
My project confronts the audience with the tension between not wanting to know about it and being curious about it at the same time. It encourages you to recognize the ways in which we unconsciously avoid or seek out certain realities.
