The Making Of: A Room of Their Own /Tilak looks at the book / Susan Meiselas / Multistory

A Room of Their Own - the book - is a visual narrative combining photographs, first hand testimonies and original art works. It was created through a series of collaborative workshops with Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas and women in refuge, in the Black Country, over 2015 and 2016. Project participant Tilak looks at the book for the first time.
A Room of Their Own shares women’s experiences of domestic abuse and the process of entering refuge alone, or with their children, to the collective life within, to then becoming resettled in their own home. The visual narrative emphasises absence in order to protect the women’s identities, and progressively their presence becomes more visible with the inclusion of their stories and artwork and, in some instances, portraits.