“Veuves”
Amy Toensing is an engaged photojournalist, known for her intimate essays on common people’s lives. Fore more than 10 years now, she has regularly contributed to the National Geographic magazine.
In many areas of the world, widowhood means “social death” for women, who then become rejected, with their children, and are socially marginalised. Having travelled through India, Uganda and Bosnia, Amy Toensing spent four years telling these women’s stories. Within those cultures, a woman is often defined through her relationship to a man: first she is a man’s daughter, then, another man’s wife. When her husband passes, she becomes a pariah. As she often will not have had the necessary education to allow her to support herself, she goes on to becomes the target of multiple abuses.
