Books by Jadwiga Brontē
LET’S TALK ABOUT RAPE Forthcoming June 2026
LET’S TALK ABOUT RAPE is a collaborative photobook created by Jadwiga Brontē together with survivors of sexual violence from diverse cultural and social backgrounds.
Bringing together documentary photography, self-portraiture, survivor testimonies, and critical reflections, the project explores the realities and long-lasting impact of sexual violence while confronting the silence, stigma, and victim-blaming that continue to surround it. Through survivor-led representation, the work seeks to shift the visual narrative surrounding rape — from shame and invisibility to agency, dignity, strength, and resilience.
At the centre of the project is a collaborative photographic process grounded in trust, listening, and self-representation. Survivors actively participate in the creation of their own images through self-portraiture, reclaiming agency over how they are seen and represented. Photography becomes both a therapeutic tool and a form of visual activism, creating space for visibility, dialogue, and collective healing.
As Alessia Glaviano writes in the book, the project “creates a space where testimony, solidarity, and visibility converge” and transforms photography into “testimony, resistance, and repair.”
The publication includes multilingual testimonies presented in their original languages alongside English translations, reflecting the international and collaborative nature of the project.
Co-authors include:
Aline Kanega (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Aleksandra Wierzbowska (Poland)
Ángela María Escobar (Colombia)
Ciara Mangan (Ireland)
Consolee Nishimwe (Rwanda)
Dominga Concepción Martínez Díaz / Malkon (Guatemala)
Elena de Paz Santiago / Ela’nay (Guatemala)
Elisabeth Hatieno (Kenya)
Ellie Wilson (United Kingdom)
Faryal Saeed Talal / فريال سعيد طلال (Iraq)
Francesca Svanera (Italy)
Halima Hussein / حليمة حسين (Iraq)
Jacqueline Mutere (Kenya)
Natalie Fleet (United Kingdom)
Najma Haji Khadida / نجمة حاجي خديدة (Iraq)
Nancy Gomez Ramos (Colombia)
Olena Apchel / Олена Апчел (Ukraine)
Shumu Haque / সুমু হক (Bangladesh)
Shyrete Tahiri Sulimani (Kosovo)
Vasfije Krasniqi (Kosovo)
Invisible People of Belarus BUY HERE £35
Invisible People of Belarus is a photobook accompanied by critical reflections and testimonies documenting the lives of disabled people and Chernobyl victims living in governmental institutions in Belarus. These institutions are known as internats and function as something between an orphanage, asylum, and hospice.
Internats often exhibit glaring deficiencies in the way they care for residents: very little physical or educational therapy is offered; opportunities for recreational activities are limited; and the right to private life is not respected, with romantic relationships between residents prohibited. Integration within the local community is virtually non-existent. Their remote locations make it difficult for families to visit. Some internats are situated in rural areas with almost no public transport links. All internats are either fenced off or walled. This separation stands as a metaphor for the way disability is perceived in Belarus: misunderstood and hidden away.
Through her use of intimate imagery, developed during extended periods spent in internats, Brontē allows the reader to encounter lives that are often hidden. Her 30 photographs, comprising portraiture, architectural photography, and documentation of residents’ creative work, are book-ended by two sections of writing.
In the first section, Brontē reflects on her reasons for focusing on the lives of internat residents and on her personal connection to the project. An anonymous NGO worker with decades of experience working in internats examines the institutional, governmental, and cultural contexts that allow for their existence. Finally, an essay by writer Michael Thomason considers the potential of Brontē’s work to contribute towards a more equitable place for difference — one not confined behind fences. With kind permission from Nobel Prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich, testimonies from Chernobyl survivors are reproduced throughout the essay to ask what we might learn from communities similarly abandoned by the state.
Following the photographs, testimonies from the mothers of people residing in internats allow the reader to explore the difficult decisions parents often make — frequently under duress — to give their children away. Also included are testimonies from two internat residents reflecting on their lives there, as well as commentary from the Director of the Institute of Radiation Safety in Belarus.
Limited first edition of 500 copies. All books are blind embossed and hand numbered.
The book is bilingual in English and Russian. The hardback edition is bound in classic black fabric, with the title hot-stamped in vinyl. The English title appears on the front cover and the Russian title on the back.
20 × 24 cm, 128 pages. Offset lithograph printed on three different papers.
Selected Anthologies & Collaborative Publications
Staying Home Together
This publication includes photographs by Jadwiga Brontē alongside works by photographers from around the world.
During this historic moment, F-Stop Magazine and Exhibit Around co-published a photographic book exploring the theme Staying Home Together. The publication reflects on a shared global experience through photographs documenting new routines, domestic environments, isolation, uncertainty, and everyday life during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Many of the experiences of 2020 transcended borders, revealing common fears, emotions, and realities across cities, countries, and continents. The publication explores this universal human experience through photography.
Eye Mama: Poetic Truths of Home and Motherhood
This publication includes photographs by Jadwiga Brontē alongside works by international photographers exploring motherhood, caregiving, and family life.
The Eye Mama book is a photographic collection centred on the “mama gaze” — what female and non-binary photographers see when they look at, and into, the home.
Based on the Eye Mama Project, a photography platform sharing curated work by photographers worldwide who identify as mothers, the book brings together more than 150 images exploring caregiving, motherhood, family life, and the post-motherhood self — rendering visible what is so often unseen.
This publication brings together images exploring the beauty and difficulty of care and parenthood, intimate domestic moments, love, exhaustion, identity, and the poetic truths of motherhood.
The Eye Mama Project has been featured in National Geographic, Vogue, Stern, Romper, the British Journal of Photography, Creative Review, and others.
www.eyemamaproject.com