Feminicides

“Daddy killed mum.”

In 2019, Le Monde sent me to La Réunion Island, located to the east of Madagascar, to produce a photographic series about five feminicides that had occurred there. Rather than reproducing the portraits that the media often lift from victims’ social-media profiles —images that frequently perpetuate moral judgment about the private lives of murdered women— I chose to shift the focus to acts of collective mourning. The flowers placed on the graves become traces of a bond between the living and the dead: fragments of affection which, despite their fragility, uphold memory in the face of violence.

Feminicides is part ofA History of Misogyny, Laia Abril’s visual research long-term project.