A student’s chilling photos put s*xual assault in focus
A student’s chilling photos put s*xual assault in focus After Brock Turner was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman outside a Stanford University fraternity house — and after he was given a six-month jail sentence widely seen as too lenient, then released after serving just half of it — a student at Ithaca College unleashed her frustrations through a series of visceral photographs meant to expose the horrors surrounding sexual assault. The project by Yana Mazurkevich depicts sexual-assault dramatizations: A woman pinned down on a bathroom counter. Another shoved against a brick wall. A man about to be victimized in a locker room. Yana Mazurkevich (Kellie Hodson) “This is not a comfortable topic,” Mazurkevich said. The 20-year-old Ithaca junior said her recent “in your face” photo set, as she describes it, is intended to bookend one she released over the summer on the topic of victi...