Monsieur
FR | 2019-2021
Many stories have been told about domestic violence, but we have been excluding one key character from the conversation. Men.
“Monsieur” is a project about men attending one of the rare rehabilitation centres in France for perpetrators of domestic violence. All of them have either been sentenced or have acknowledged the facts of domestic violence. The centre helps them to find the right keys to reintegrate society as a better person, husband & citizen.
Perpetrators’ guilt is obvious, their dehumanisation less. Reality is more complex and various typologies of perpetrators, victims and violence exist.
In order to approach that complexity, I am articulating this project through portraits of the perpetrators and images of their daily life in the centre with the aim to outline their psychological states and to explore their paths towards rehabilitation.
I believe that we need to bring back men in the general awareness about domestic violence to better understand the human issue behind and invest in better fixing humans.