sliderarrowCloseMenushare_facebookshare_instagramshare_xshare_linkedinshare_threadsshare_shareshare_tranditionalshare_calendarshare_emailicon_threadsconnect_facebookconnect_instagramconnect_xconnect_youtubeconnect_atbtn_arrowhamburger-x
Skip to main content
Collections Menu

Uc, 16, "After raping me, the young man looked at me in the eyes and smiled. My society buy into the ideas of masculinity that see rape, violence and dominance as male, and when women and girls are less valued"

Image Not Available for Uc, 16, "After raping me, the young man looked at me in the eyes and smiled. My society buy into the ideas of masculinity that see rape, violence and dominance as male, and when women and girls are less valued"
Uc, 16, "After raping me, the young man looked at me in the eyes and smiled. My society buy into the ideas of masculinity that see rape, violence and dominance as male, and when women and girls are less valued"
Image Not Available for Uc, 16, "After raping me, the young man looked at me in the eyes and smiled. My society buy into the ideas of masculinity that see rape, violence and dominance as male, and when women and girls are less valued"
ArtistNigerian, born 1972
CultureNigerian
Titles
  • Uc, 16, "After raping me, the young man looked at me in the eyes and smiled. My society buy into the ideas of masculinity that see rape, violence and dominance as male, and when women and girls are less valued"
  • from the series Legal Rape
Date2021
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 19 11/16 × 29 1/2 in. (50 × 75 cm)
 Sheet: 21 11/16 × 31 1/2 in. (55.1 × 80 cm)
Credit LineGift of Catherine Edelman
Object number2025.314
Not on view

Explore Further

Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceCatherine Edelman, Chicago.

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.

Image Not Available for AJ 22, My counsellor told me, “surviving rape made me courageous and brave.” But I disagree. I was courageous and brave before somebody raped me."
Emeke Obanor
AJ 22, My counsellor told me, “surviving rape made me courageous and brave.” But I disagree. I was courageous and brave before somebody raped me."
2020
Inkjet print
2025.313
Image Not Available for Aisha, 16 years old, in North East Nigeria, was kidnapped by Boko Haram when she was 13 years old and trained to be a suicide bomber. Before she was abducted, she taught herself letters and words at home as her poor father couldn't send her to school. She wants to become a teacher.
Emeke Obanor
Aisha, 16 years old, in North East Nigeria, was kidnapped by Boko Haram when she was 13 years old and trained to be a suicide bomber. Before she was abducted, she taught herself letters and words at home as her poor father couldn't send her to school. She wants to become a teacher.
2020
Inkjet print
2025.311
Image Not Available for Ladi is 16, born in North East Nigeria. She was abducted by her uncle a Boko Haram sympathizer. She was married off two times to two terror group fighters who died in different military base attacks. Without her husband to protect her , she was strapped with a bomb to detonate in a church. She survived and spends time collecting pens as she believes the pen is mightier than the sword. She wants to become a writer.
Emeke Obanor
Ladi is 16, born in North East Nigeria. She was abducted by her uncle a Boko Haram sympathizer. She was married off two times to two terror group fighters who died in different military base attacks. Without her husband to protect her , she was strapped with a bomb to detonate in a church. She survived and spends time collecting pens as she believes the pen is mightier than the sword. She wants to become a writer.
2020
Inkjet print
2025.312
"The moon turns its clockwork dream - the biggest stars look at me with your eyes"
Leslie Field
"The moon turns its clockwork dream - the biggest stars look at me with your eyes"
2004
Inkjet print on acrylic
2018.448
Overall recto.
Mr.
All Sorts of Ideas
2022
Pen, acrylic, ink, watercolor and graphite on paper
2022.272
[Sign “Crossroads” “Exciting Gift Ideas for Mom…” Cars Traffic Light]
George W. Gardner
[Sign “Crossroads” “Exciting Gift Ideas for Mom…” Cars Traffic Light]
May 31, 1969
Gelatin silver print on album page
2025.112.B
His last fight "see he lies, death staring from his eyes" - somewhere in France
Underwood & Underwood
His last fight "see he lies, death staring from his eyes" - somewhere in France
1914 - 1918
Gelatin silver stereographic print
2009.1513
Traditional birthing attendant, Nyirabahire Esteri, holding newborns Nsabimana (“I beg something from God”) and Mukanzabonimpa (“God will grant me, but I don’t know when”), flanked by mothers Kanyange, Mukabatazi, and Mukabatazi’s mother, Rwandan refugee camp, Lumasi, Tanzania
Fazal Sheikh
Traditional birthing attendant, Nyirabahire Esteri, holding newborns Nsabimana (“I beg something from God”) and Mukanzabonimpa (“God will grant me, but I don’t know when”), flanked by mothers Kanyange, Mukabatazi, and Mukabatazi’s mother, Rwandan refugee camp, Lumasi, Tanzania
1994
Inkjet print
2021.476
My Mother Holding Me When I Was Three, from the series Relations
Stephen Laub
My Mother Holding Me When I Was Three, from the series Relations
1972, printed 1995
Silver dye bleach print
96.665
[six men in military uniform with handwritten names on photograph in blue ink "I was on K.P. this / day when the Boy's / asked me to take / this"]
Unknown
[six men in military uniform with handwritten names on photograph in blue ink "I was on K.P. this / day when the Boy's / asked me to take / this"]
1940–1945
Gelatin silver print
2014.541
Image Not Available for No one else makes me feel the colors that you bring me
Evita Tezeno
No one else makes me feel the colors that you bring me
2024
Acrylic and mixed media collage on canvas
2024.550
Image Not Available for Hook 24 necklace from the series "Clasp me firmly, hold me tight"
Veronika Fabian
Hook 24 necklace from the series "Clasp me firmly, hold me tight"
2024
Silver-plated brass chains
2025.30
Emeke Obanor