On Every Third Day

On the night of August 05, 2020, 15-year-old Noelle comes across a random man at the train station on her way home. An hour later, she is dead. According to the investigation, the man first raped and then strangled her to death for at least six minutes.

On the night of August 05, 2020, 15-year-old Noelle comes across a random man at the train station on her way home. An hour later, she is dead. According to the investigation, the man first raped and then strangled her to death for at least six minutes. A murder that must be called what it is, a femicide: women and girls killed because of their gender.

While this case won‘t even show in any statistics and media continuously fails to report accordingly and with due respect, there is an attempted murder of a woman by her (ex-) partner every single day in Germany. On every second to third day it is completed.

This violence doesn‘t happen the other way around regarding gender and it is more than a criminal offense; it is the top of the pyramid of misogyny.

Noelle's story is Sina’s starting point for a larger project about femicides in Germany. The photographs of this chapter were created in close collaboration with Noelle's mother and sister. The mother experienced Sina’s work as a voice that expresses something for which she at the moment didn’t have the strength or words.