“When I shoot, I have an out of body experience,” Amelia [Coffaro, a freelance photographer who was diagnosed with breast cancer at 28] says. “I don’t feel afraid to know what the doctors are going to say.” By using Instagram, she feels that she has a more immediate and direct connection with others, allowing them to see her experiences in real time.”
Amelia’s friend and fellow photographer Elizabeth Griffin has also been documenting Amelia’s journey. Elizabeth’s photos combined with Amelia’s Instagram shots allow the viewer to not only see the struggle of a cancer patient from the outside, but also to feel and witness the struggle through the eyes of the patient herself.
The project, which they call “Project Amelia,” is meant to challenge assumptions about cancer — and to put a frame around the struggles faced by women with breast cancer.
Capturing Life With Cancer At 28
Photo Credit: Elizabeth Griffin and Amelia Coffaro
“A Harvest of Death”
Timothy H. O”Sullivan, photographer; printed by Alexander Gardner
American, negative July 4, 1863; print 1866
Albumen silver print
Source: Getty
“I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.” ~ Ella Fitzgerald.
In this photo, she is performing at Mr. Kelly’s nightclub in Chicago in 1958. Photo by Yale Joel//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.
You Are My Wild is a talented group of 14 photographers who publish a weekly portrait series of how they see their kids.
We talked with Meaghan Curry one of the founding members, and she gave us a little insight into how they started:
“Right after the new year, and in sort of a creative lull, we were brainstorming about starting a project to force ourselves to put down our phone cameras down and pick up our other cameras more regularly…
Ironically, Instagram is the common thread between us. It is where we found other people documenting their children in really loving, beautiful and respectful ways.”
You Are My Wild - Portrait Series Documenting Childhood
Photos by Meaghan Curry, Bina Brakken, Dera Frances White, Rebecca Zeller, Anje Marie
These are are so beautiful!
Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor
Afghanistan’s Kyrgyz nomads survive in one of the most remote, high-altitude, bewitching landscapes on Earth. It’s a heavenly life—and a living hell.
A book of Matthieu Paley’s photographs of the Kyrgyz, “Pamir: Forgotten on the Roof of the World” was published in October by La Martinière in French and Knesebeck in German. He is trying to get it printed in English, too.
Photographs from his two latest trips in 2012 are featured in the February 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine, accompanied by a story by Michael Finkel.
[Credit : Matthieu Paley]
(via beholdphotos)
Marc Escañuelas is on a solo trip around the world. You may want to keep tabs on him.
“I love myself when I am laughing…and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.”
- Zora Neale Hurston
photographs by Carl Van Vechten
Jamel Shabazz, NYC
These are so great! Click through for more of the awesomeness of the early 80s, complete with plenty of leather and arm-crossing.
Though the weather was freezing, skaters descended on the Wollman Memorial Rink in Central Park, December 10, 1968. Photo: Neal Boenzi/The New York Times
Beautiful.
Going ice skating with the afterschool kids tomorrow! Super stoked.
Steve McCurry travels the world photographing the magic of motion. His kinetic portraits are might inspire you to leave your shutter open a little longer.
Steve McCurry’s Photos of Motion
via Reddit
These are beautiful!
