Showcase: A Quiet Bridge to Young Victims – Lens

When she’s at work, Mariella Furrer sits on the floor. She doesn’t move, and rarely speaks.

For more than seven years, Ms. Furrer has been involved with a project so draining that she has had to seek medical help. Photographing young victims of sexual abuse in South Africa would be difficult for anyone, but Ms. Furrer, 41, is herself a victim of sexual abuse.