The Hostage Project

The author asked women, “What in your life do you feel holds you hostage or prevents you from prospering?” She received many and varied responses both real and intangible. This fine art photography project is the artist's way of allowing those women to communicate their pain. Join her, her model and her content contributors in their journey to healing through the cathartic process of facing their abuse, their emotions & overcoming them. The Hostage Project’s goal is for each image to elicit emotion and to call attention to the kinds of abuse women endure; exploring the societal and self imposed ideas responsible for women’s literal and physical bondage. The intention is for the project’s visibility to encourage women to break out of their bonds. Beginning as a statement on domestic violence and growing to include everything that stifles women’s prosperity, ultimately the project encompasses the downtrodden, each and every one of us who has forgotten how to dream. It is not an indictment against anyone but a depiction of the human condition. I hope to inspire each one of us to overcome what prevents us and to attain our dreams. Twelve images, each depicting a woman bound in some fashion but also with a method of escape, invite you to explore your own constraints while empathizing with the feminine station.