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Archive for November 2010
Some Photos Are Just Too Hard to Take
Tweet Last month, my mother was admitted to the hospital for cancer surgery. I decided to document the hospitalization, from admission to returning home. One of my inspirations was Days With My Father, Phillip Toledano’s brave visual account of his father’s last days. I wasn’t just interested in coming up with a series of melodramatic [...]
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