Coercive Control is the 'unseen' abuse that usually takes the form of psychological and emotion control and abuse. Survivors are encouraged to keep diaries of their abuse.

(Her)story is an image-text dialogue about my experience of Coercive Control in a former relationship. I have been writing about this experience in a journal for the past three years. The images were taken during and before that time, and I have attempted to interweave the images with the text to create something nuanced, to offer a different way of looking and thinking about a complex and difficult subject matter.

Coercive Control is now recognised as a crime in the UK under the Domestic Violence Act, and a new bill is being finalised through parliament this year with the help of twenty human rights lawyers, MP'S and ministers. Coercive Control is the 'unseen' abuse that usually takes the form of psychological and emotion control and abuse. Survivors are encouraged to keep diaries of their abuse. My journal started as a way to understand what was happening to me, which later turned into creative writing and later an exploration of how my point of view as a female photographer recorded my internal experience.

The title (Her)story alludes to history pertaining mainly from a patriarchal experience and perspective, whilst the female experience is mainly muted and unseen. I am interested through my artist and academic research in creating counter hegemonic discourses through already existing female archives, mine being one of them.