Monday, August 11, 2014

Making gang-rape SEXY in India (photos)

Wisdom Quarterly; TheGuardian.com/AFP (Agence France-Presse) in Mumbai/Bombay
Controversial portfolio fashion shoot photos taken down after uproar (Raj Shetye/TG)
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Indian photographer Raj Shetye is criticized after posing fashion models in scenes echoing brutal and fatal assault of woman on bus.

He has sparked outrage for a fashion shoot that depicted a woman being assaulted on a bus, echoing a fatal gang-rape that shocked the nation.

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The project, called The Wrong Turn, appeared in his online portfolio and was then taken down, but not before coming to the attention of the media.

The photos show a female model dressed in high-end fashion garments being groped on a bus by a group of men, also fashionably dressed, in various poses.
 
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In one image the woman is on the floor with a man standing over her, while one shows her struggling with two men gripping her arms and another has two men pinning her down on the seats.
 
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The shoot has drawn a torrent of criticism in India, where the fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in December 2012 sparked nationwide protests over levels of sexual violence against women.
  
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