Hi Cyber Friends,
Today Breastcancer.org was contacted by Alexandra Avakian, a photojournalist with many publications including the New York Times, Life, Newsweek, and Paris Match. Alexandra has covered conflicts in areas across the globe including the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe.
Two years ago, after witnessing so much of other people’s difficulty, Alexandra was diagnosed with breast cancer. For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, she shares her story and photos in today’s New York Times “Lens” blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/behind-18/
National Geographic recently published Alexandra’s book, “Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World.”
We hope you take a moment to look at the blog, and talk with others about it.
Best,
Melissa and the Breastcancer.org Team
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Margee_J Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 13 |
Nov 5, 2009 10:29 pm
Margee_J wrote:
Excellent work and she is so talented. I could understand and relate to every picture, job well done! Thank you for posting. Diagnosis: 9/30/2009, IDC, <1cm, Stage I, Grade 3, 0/1 nodes, ER+/PR-, HER2+ |
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momtobkands… Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 16 |
Nov 9, 2009 10:20 pm
momtobkandsd wrote:
I was a journalist by trade and a serious photographer on almost a daily basis. I have more than 55,000 photos on my computer. Only about 5 are of me since my cancer diagnosis in March 2008. I wanted to document it, but my husband refused. No one else went with me to my treatments and I knew no one else to ask. Seeing these moving photos makes me wish I had gone to greater efforts to capture what I have been through, but at the time depression stopped me. I didn't want to go to any more effort. The cancer battle was taking too much of me. I should not have let it. Diagnosis: 3/2008, IDC, 1cm, Stage II, Grade 2, 2/21 nodes, ER+/PR+, HER2- |
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