Anatomy of Doubt
BY JESSIE KURZ
These photographs were made for a book based off the podcast “The Anatomy of Doubt.” It tells the true story of Marie, who was raped, but no one believed her. She was restrained with her own shoelaces, which her former foster moms thought just didn’t make sense and told the police that she might be lying. She just wanted attention, they thought— until one of her former foster moms heard on the news that a girl from a town over was raped in the same way. With shoelaces.
Unfortunately for Marie, she already paid a $500 fine, was getting counseling, and doing community service for being convicted of false reporting. During the time that the police were charging Marie, her assailant went on to rape four more women. Two years later, her local PD paid her $500 back and apologized, but that didn’t mean much to Marie. The damage was already done. This story isn’t an anomaly. This happens every single day.These photographs were made to capture the uncertainty, insecurity, and violation that doubted survivors like Marie are made to feel about themselves and their own body. |