Journalists in the Wild- Seivan M. Salim

Seivan M. Salim is an Iraqi photographer. In this specific series, she tracked down female sex slaves who were held captive by ISIS. Here she documents these brave women in a symbolic way. The robes you see this woman wearing is symbolic to purity. Seivan is showing that even though these women were treated by animals by ISIS they are still whole and pure. They could not prevent the men who raped them, they could only escape. Seivan tracked down almost all of the escapees and did this photo series for each one of the women. Each picture also tells the story of the specific woman. Nasima, a 22 year old woman, is photographed here. She mentioned that she had “tried to run away twice, but he caught [her] and beat [her] for three days in a row.” She was in captivity for nine months before her final attempt for freedom was successful. She is only in the 6th grade. [1 image, 2 links, 1 quotation, 160 words].