Why Did You Come Back Every Summer by Belen Lopez Peiro Groundswell Speaker 2024 Full-colour Photography

Full-colour Photography

Her extraordinary belief in the power of language – of speaking – to articulate selfhood

and celosia

fertilise and fend off pests

but even he can't ignore the dried blood on his carpets

Why Did You Come Back Every Summer by Belen Lopez Peiro Groundswell Speaker 2024 Full-colour PhotographyA fractured account of family abuse, secrets, and the cost of pursuing the truth. In the most private spaces, the most intimate betrayals occur. Beln Lpez Peir places us squarely in the tenderest of timesyoung teenagehood, in a home about to be ruptured by sexual assault. In this home, for this young woman, your assailant is your uncle, and also a police commissioner. The people who shelter you will reject you: your mother is his sister in law, your