AFTERMATH SERIES

night before breast cancer mastectomy self portrait of kerry mansfield

After breast cancer mastectomy self portrait of kerry mansfield

Before hair loss from breast cancer chemotherapy treatment self portrait of kerry mansfield

First breast cancer chemotherapy treatment self portrait of kerry mansfield

breast cancer chemotherapy treatment self portrait of kerry mansfield

First breast cancer chemotherapy treatment bald self portrait of kerry mansfield

after breast cancer chemotherapy treatment self portrait of kerry mansfield

with hair after breast cancer chemotherapy treatment self portrait of kerry mansfield

WHERE ARE THE UGLY PICTURES?

As a photographer, I’ve spent most of my career looking deeply into the spaces we inhabit and exploring the idea of home. But at the age of thirty-one, a diagnosis of breast cancer forced me to redefine my thinking. Faced with the nihilistic process of radical chemotherapy and surgery, my ideas of where I existed turned inward. As the treatment broke down the physical structure in which I lived, the relationship between the cellular self and the metaphysical self became glaringly clear. Nobody else was present when these pictures were made—just my dissolving ideas of self and a camera.

AFTERMATH SERIES

WHERE ARE THE UGLY PICTURES?

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