THE BEST ACCOMPLICE OF VIOLENCE IS THE SILENCE

"The best accomplice of violence is the silence" says Alessandro Palomo. "Violence is a cancer that doesn’t knows social boundaries or social condition. It can affect anyone person, no matter if she is a normal person or a famous person. To avoid violence the best option is to use culture by means of education.

Alessandro Palomo has created the advertising campaign named #BreakTheSilence. He has taken pictures of celebrities like Emma Watson and he transformed it with Photoshop with the purpose to show that they have suffered gender violence and make aware the society. With that he wants to encourage victims to report abuse and to break the silence.

The artist wants to know that anyone person can suffer violence. That we must to be attentive to any situation of violence, either physically or psychologically.

Important: Signs of violence is when your partner or ex-partner:

• Ignores or disregards your feelings
• Ridicule, insult or despise women in general
• When he puts you down, yells at you or insult you in private or in public
• Threaten to hurt you or your family
• when he has assaulted you ever physically
• Isolates you from family and / or friends
• Etc.

A good relationship is when there is trust and respect to each other and above all there is love. If you suffer from one of the earlier signs, it could be the beginning of an abusive relationship