Lima Women Form Circle Protest Photo After String of Femicide Cases in 2023
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Updated · The Guardian · Jun 3
Lima Women Form Circle Protest Photo After String of Femicide Cases in 2023
2 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Jun 3
Summary
Mid-March 2023, women in Lima swam naked into the sea at Playa Agua Dulce and formed a circle for Ana Elisa Sotelo’s photograph “Women’s Circle.”
A string of femicide cases in the Peruvian capital drove the action, which channeled anger and helplessness into a collective display of sisterhood, with participants kicking and screaming in the water.
An Instagram open call and WhatsApp group organized the shoot, while three women on paddleboards provided safety and collected swimsuits to keep the beach gathering free of male onlookers.
Sotelo says the image, released 3 years later, reflects a world she sees as harsher and still marked by gender-based violence, even as public urgency around the issue appears to have faded.