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I didn’t fall down the stairs I didn’t fall down the stairs I didn’t fall down the stairs

Honorable Mention / Portrait

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I didn’t fall down the stairs I didn’t fall down the stairs I didn’t fall down the stairs
DAVID MATHIAS

I didn’t fall down the stairs
I didn’t fall down the stairs
I didn’t fall down the stairs
I didn’t fall down the stairs
DAVID MATHIAS
I didn’t fall down the stairs

Sometimes the edge between caring and worrying for a friends or a neighbor and minding our own business is thin.

One day a woman I knew but not so much, had some marks sticking out of her clothes. She always pretended that was an accident.
I always had a doubt : the curious location of the marks, there intensities. But it could be. And I still ask myself today : perhaps I should have insisted ? I did it a bit, but at a moment I felt I was too intrusive. How to manage that ? It is still a question today.
This photo series is in memories of this woman - and all women - victims of domestic violence and who, that time, didn't fall down the stairs.

Author
After 15 years dedicated to the creation of surrounded images and video environments for major events and shows, I decided to return to a human scale "face to face", by taking portraits.
These portraits paints people in a "neutral" presence where their body detaches from a minimalist, but structured and graphic, background. There is always an emotional and symbolic relationship between the people photographed and the environment in which they are portrayed.

Website
www.davidmathias.net
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