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Documenting Underreported Issues with Danielle Villasana

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Danielle Villasana (@davillasana) has her #EyesOn the resilience of women, both those experiencing the aftermath of Boko Haram violence in Nigeria and being transgender in Peru. The documentary photographer splits her time between the two countries when she is not at her home base of Istanbul.

“It’s really important to focus not only on the negative things that can happen to a woman because she’s a woman,” says Danielle, “but also her strength and her resilience to push beyond those hardships.”

In northeastern Nigeria, she met families, among the tens of thousands of Nigerians, suffering from acute malnutrition. In downtown Lima, she spent two and a half years documenting the challenges facing transgender women: domestic violence, stigmatization and lack of treatment for diseases including tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.

Danielle is drawn to underreported places and issues in part because there is room to add to the conversation. “As long as you care about it, then you should pursue it — even if the whole entire world is focused on something else.”

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