Donna Ferrato is a photojournalist and activist who covers domestic violence. She has won many awards and her work has been featured in museums and galleries. She began photographing in New York clubs, capturing the culture of the late 1970s. She would stay in homes of assaulted women around the world to photograph domestic violence.
Donna Ferrato published six books and one documentary. The most recent work Ferrato has released is called Tribeca, named after a neighborhood in New York City, the place where Ferrato went to raise her child. The neighborhood was described as having the veneer of the old world but still renegade.
Since 2008, Ferrato created a collection of photographs, each taking two to three years, about the change and transition in the neighborhood.
Michael Imperioli, an American actor and director, says about Tribeca, “Donna Ferrato miraculously manages to capture Tribeca from two completely distinct points of view at the same time: she can stand at a distance with the objective eye of a compassionate, awestruck outsider as well as take us inside the heart of our big city hamlet with the love and care that only a native could possibly possess.”
Another iconic piece of work that Ferrato has published is Holy, a book Ferrato wrote dedicated to the courage of women’s mentality, sexuality, emotionality, and spirituality.
Ferrato says that she had dedicated her thoughts and feelings into the book, each photo on each page captured with the finest quality and each caption handwritten with love.
A photo in Holy depicted a woman at a party dressed in a bikini performing for a group of men. In the caption Ferrato writes, “She said she was a strip-o-gram girl. After seeing her work, I say, she was a savior the way she moved mankind.”
Another photograph in the book showed a young boy in a room with three police officers, a wife, and a husband. The husband was being arrested by the police officers while the boy shouted at his dad, “I hate you for hitting my mother. Don’t come back to this house,” while the mother watched from a distance.
Sources:
(1) https://s3.amazonaws.com/appforest_uf/f1657470954839x953823447485755400/Donna%20Ferrato%E2%80%99s%20Camera%20Is%20a%20Weapon%20for%20Women%20-%20The%20New%20York%20Times.pdf
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Ferrato
(3) https://www.donnaferrato.com/holy-book-sale
Donna Ferrato published six books and one documentary. The most recent work Ferrato has released is called Tribeca, named after a neighborhood in New York City, the place where Ferrato went to raise her child. The neighborhood was described as having the veneer of the old world but still renegade.
Since 2008, Ferrato created a collection of photographs, each taking two to three years, about the change and transition in the neighborhood.
Michael Imperioli, an American actor and director, says about Tribeca, “Donna Ferrato miraculously manages to capture Tribeca from two completely distinct points of view at the same time: she can stand at a distance with the objective eye of a compassionate, awestruck outsider as well as take us inside the heart of our big city hamlet with the love and care that only a native could possibly possess.”
Another iconic piece of work that Ferrato has published is Holy, a book Ferrato wrote dedicated to the courage of women’s mentality, sexuality, emotionality, and spirituality.
Ferrato says that she had dedicated her thoughts and feelings into the book, each photo on each page captured with the finest quality and each caption handwritten with love.
A photo in Holy depicted a woman at a party dressed in a bikini performing for a group of men. In the caption Ferrato writes, “She said she was a strip-o-gram girl. After seeing her work, I say, she was a savior the way she moved mankind.”
Another photograph in the book showed a young boy in a room with three police officers, a wife, and a husband. The husband was being arrested by the police officers while the boy shouted at his dad, “I hate you for hitting my mother. Don’t come back to this house,” while the mother watched from a distance.
Sources:
(1) https://s3.amazonaws.com/appforest_uf/f1657470954839x953823447485755400/Donna%20Ferrato%E2%80%99s%20Camera%20Is%20a%20Weapon%20for%20Women%20-%20The%20New%20York%20Times.pdf
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Ferrato
(3) https://www.donnaferrato.com/holy-book-sale
