US Army Spc. Natasha Schuette, 21, was pressured not to report being assaulted by her drill sergeant during basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Though she was hazed by her assailant’s fellow drill instructors, she refused to back down an

Elisha Morrow and Tiffany Berkland  were sexually harassed by the same company commander when they were in basic training after joining the Coast Guard. Elisha thought about faking a suicide attempt to get away from him; "he haunts your person

Melissa A. Ramon spent nine years in the US Air Force where she survived several sexual assaults and has been homeless off and on since her discharge. Women's shelters will not admit a young man over the age of twelve, so she and her 13-year-old son

While Melissa A. Ramon unpacks their belongings, her 13-year-old son Sam plays with a toy gun in their room at a motel In Pomona, CA that they call “The Jungle.” They vacated the previous motel (that charged $37.50 for two hours), because a male str

Darlene Matthews shows signs of fatigue after rolling down her window on a rainy evening for a portrait in her car where she has been living for the past three years in Costa Mesa, CA, in the parking lot of a mortuary next to a graveyard.  She

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Mary F. Calvert

Artist's Talk: Mary F. Calvert
Friday, June 17, 2016 at 11:00am
The Paramount Theater
215 East Main Street
Charlottesville, VA 22902

Exhibition: Missing in Action: Homeless Female Veterans
June 13 - 19
Pop Up Gallery (Next to Bank of America)
306 East Main St.
Charlottesville, Virginia

Photojournalist Mary F. Calvert is committed to using photography to affect meaningful social change and is known for producing work on gender-based human rights issues. Calvert believes that journalists have a duty to shine a light into the deepest recesses of the human experience and provide a mirror for society to examine itself.

For the past three years Calvert has been focusing her journalistic attention on the continually under-reported relegation and abuse of women in the US Armed Forces. Her work “Sexual Assault in America’s Military” was awarded 1st Prize, Long Term Projects in the 2016 World Press Photo Contest.

The Battle Within: Sexual Assault in America’s Military has been awarded the 2015 National Press Photographers Association, Cliff Edom New America Award and the 2013 the Canon Female Photojournalist Award. The resulting work was featured in a solo exhibition at the 2014 Visa Pour L’Image, International Festival of Photojournalism in Perpignan, France. In 2014 Calvert was the recipient of the Alexia Foundation Women’s Initiative Grant for her project Missing in Action: Homeless Women Veterans, and in 2015, she was awarded the 2015 W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Fellowship.

Calvert has won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award twice and is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Photography. Recently, Calvert was awarded the 2015 W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Fellowship.

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