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From a series 'RELUCTANT sex workers'. â??Men want rough sex â?? I think it is to humiliate womenâ?? "Poverty in Hamukungu is extreme. The fishing is small scale and not for any significant commercial exploitation like Lake Victoria. Look at this dust bowl â?? it has no trees, no soul. The sadness is the village is surrounded by the lush plains and forests of the Queen Elizabeth Park where we are forbidden to enter to collect fire wood. When we do enter the park, the rangers beat and rape us. We are prisoners on the shore of Lake George.â?? SCOVIA Kapaska 33 years old, widowed twice, 6 children, HIV/AIDS positive. Image captured May 2011 Hamukungu Fishing Village, Lake George, Uganda

Carol Allen Storey is an award-winning documentary photo journalist specialising in chronicling complex humanitarian and social issues. “My images are intimate, about issues and citizens I deeply care about. I believe photographs may not be capable of doing the moral work for us, but they can trigger the process of social consciousness.” In 2000 Carol graduated Central St. Martins, Master Photography Programme with distinction. Storey’s further degrees include an MA at Columbia University and a BA at Syracuse University. A native New Yorker, Storey resides in London