SAFE HOUSE documentary photo exhibit "Meet The Artist" Opening, in recognition of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month

As part of its 2013 domestic violence awareness advocacy campaign, CELEBRATE SAFETY, The AWARE Project presents the SAFE HOUSE documentary exhibit. The series of photographs and exhibit companion book seek to capture the sense of “safety” and “home” created by personal objects and spaces for survivors moving from violence in the household, to emergency shelters and safe houses, through transitional housing, and finally settling into an affordable home of their own.

In the midst of the affluence cultivated and cherished in Greater Prince William and our surrounding areas, this work puts faces and voices to the need that can be too easily obscured and hidden. If survivors can gird up the courage to leave abusive situations, this work stirs us to rally and leverage an equal courage to help provide them a safe place to heal and rebuild their lives.

http://www.awareproject.net/ 

The exhibit is hosted by the Prince William County Department of Social Services in the atrium of the A.J. Ferlazzo Building in Woodbridge and covers safe houses and shelters in Prince William and Fairfax counties.