Sara Hylton

Canadian storyteller focusing on gender + human rights |
      
Nobody Listened
Location: Mumbai, India
Nationality: Canadian
Biography: Sara Hylton is an award-winning photographer and explorer recognized for her compassionate and intimate approach to human rights issues. Hylton is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography and holds an MA from Kings College... MORE
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Nobody Listened
Copyright Sara Hylton 2024
Date of Work Apr 2017 - Ongoing
Updated Feb 2019
Location Saskatchewan
Topics Discrimination, Documentary, Domestic Violence, Dying/Death, Editorial, Environment, Faith, Fear, Feminism, Film, Gender, Human Rights, Landscape, Photography, Photojournalism, Politics, Portraiture, Racism, women, Womens Rights

On Sept. 25th, 2013 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Kelly Goforth's body was found in a red garbage bin wrapped in a hockey back in an industrial area of town. Goforth's killer, a white male, is known to have killed Richele Bear, another indigenous woman, and the family suspects he may have killed others. Goforth's death is not an isolated incident in Saskatchewan, one of many areas in Canada struggling with a shameful history of abuse, neglect and indifference towards its First Nations women and people. Human rights groups estimate that at least 4000 indigenous women have been murdered or gone missing across Canada. Though Justin Trudeau promised a national inquiry into the issue that was meant to begin in May 2017, it has been met with delays, disappointment, and controversy.

I returned home after 15 years and spent the month of April traveling across Saskatchewan meeting with Indigenous women. Attempting to cut through the numbers and the desensitized nature in which families of missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW) are portrayed, the incredible resilience and strong tradition among communities was revealed. This was the story I saw.

Through authentic and natural portraiture and evidential landscapes, my aim is to bring the stories of these women to viewers in a humane and intimate way. Exploring the emotional space between loss and healing, women were photographed in locations where they felt closest to their loved ones, hoping to give them a sense of agency.

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