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Published: 2005-02-24 11:49:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 26311; Favourites: 474; Downloads: 1713
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I wanted to try and show Cancer as an emotion and concept. This is what I came up with.Well I guess an explanation is needed... The marble represents a spot. The whole face is the person (Familial unit, group, friends) is the before, the torn face is the after. Cancer is a deceiving thing. On the outside everything looks great, on the inside it's not. The before and after pictures of a family group going though this with a loved one is an ominous thing. Sometimes you can't even recognize them...
Hope this helps a bit...
Enjoy...
Dave
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Very interesting... somber and a little creepy.
Nice job.
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great idea and execution. i really like the hint of color with the marble. great work.
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This is your best concept yet....very dark. There are so many wonderful metaphors that can be seen through this and that is what I love about it.
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beautiful and powerful, like all your work. i am really in love with this.
it's quite awesome that you are a staff member now, dave.
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the imagery is wonderful, though it is a little harder for me to create meaning from it although i do understand what you're trying to portray.
but i know what being a family unit to a person with cancer is like. one of my closest aunts passed away from cancer early 2003, and we watched her as life began to slip away. she could no longer fight, even though her spirit was strong, but she knew it was time for her to leave.
i now live with another aunt with cancer (the twin sister of the one who passed on earlier) - thankfully she still has the strength to fight, and her immediate family has been with her every step of the way.
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my nanna died a couple of years ago from a cancerous tumour of the brain.
it was growing in the part of the brain thats in control of commuincation, so by the end she couldn't even speak or write anything to us, she could just look.
it was a very horrible thing to have to go through, but i really like how you've chosen to demonstrate this, very perceptive.
is this something thats touched your life too?
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it certainly is a frightening thing to see someone go through, especially a family member. i couldn't ever imagine photographing cancer in a non-portrait way but you've done, as always, an incredible job. good work.
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great concept behind this shot, it is amazing how you get the masks to stand up like that on the white surface. jaw-dropping stuff
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my grandmother was diagnosed with bowel cancer a few months ago; they removed that, i believe, but now there's an offshoot. the doctors have given her 3 months to live. i don't agree with how you say, "everything looks fine on the outside". she's lost so much weight because she simply wasn't eating, and there are other visible signs that all is not right. but, of course, you could've meant all looks fine on the outside -before- they realise there's cancer. my uncle's wife also died of cancer, and my grandfather from luekemia (sp?)
it's hard to see people commenting with words like, "nice concept" and all, because so many people die from cancer, so many families go through the pain of this. nice concept? how can expressing cancer be a nice concept?
i haven't got much to say about the colours and all. the red vs the white is alright, how red is so striking and defiant and continuous against the paleness.
i hope your dad doesn't go through too much pain, and if there's chance of recovery or at least pain relief, let it come soon.
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My grandmother died a few months after I posted that reply. My grandfather (her husband) died in his sleep last September from a tear in his heart that leaked blood into his body and I think it filled his lungs in the night.
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Stories like this are why I want to spread the message of folks like Dr. Leonard Coldwell, Dr. Max Gerson, Dr. Krebs, and other people who've been silenced by big industry because they've found cures.
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I like the simplicity, good use of color
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*stunned*
this is so.... pure... i cant put my astonishment into words.. the only thing going through my mind is a french compliment that shows deepest respect:
"chapeau!"
Greetz,
fx
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A very moving piece of work, and very well presented...
I can really relate to this, my mum was taken by a rare facial/head cancer (cancer of the ethanoid), so the image has a slightly different meaning to me.
excellent work 
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Very nice conceptual piece. The lighting and whiteness is perfect. You stated that the broken face is afterwards, but I'll disagree that it is not always like that, sometimes after the cancer it becomes the full face, the broken face has long passed. Cancer is a killer but it can't take everyone, and even when it does take people it doesn't always take their ambition or will to live. But alot of cancers besides skin, skin, throat, etc..external ones, it is not noticable, they are hidden from it, and the world can not see it within. We need to fight this battle and win.
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this is a great shot. Quite an emotional piece and yes it has hit since my two grandmothers and my uncle from jersey died from that disease.
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The picture is simple . But the good saying is " A little goes along way" The photo says alot because all it takes is one. My Aunt died because of the sickness.
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Eerie image, and a little cryptic, but you pulled it off beautifully.
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Well you made me cry so bravo that's a sure sign you've hit me where it hurts and that's the power of good photography.
I'll argue the people wanting more colour this is exactly the way I think it needs to be portrayed. A tiny spot in the purity of man. So minute it should not have the capability for destruction that it does have. I have considered this disease my arch enemy for so long, to see it portrayed this way almost makes me angry because I'm reminded of how small it really is.. for a short time, because it grows exponentially so fast and anhiliates whatever it's infecting.
I've lost so many I've lost count, and I bear the burden of genetics but not the fear. The fear is what let's it win.
Just an absolutely hard hitting, well composed shot. It's good to put a face to the enemy.
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Glad you like it Danie and glad it makes you feel. Can't get a higher compliment... Dave
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This is excellent I think you did a good job. Where did you get the masks???
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Bought them about a year ago at a Halloween supply store. Thanks...
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This is a very amazing and touching shot especially since my grandmother has just been through a very hard journey with breast caner. You are so amazing with your conceptual shots.
Love, Libby
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that's a very unique expression of the emotions surrounding a very tough situation. as with many who've left comments, it really hits home with me. the split especially. anyway, i really like how clean the shot is and your use of contrast and color. very nicely done.
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I love the colors. It gives a feel of the grayscale really well, but the marble revitalizes the picture. Well done 
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My mother works as an RN, and she travels around to people's homes to care for those who are dying.
She said that when people die, they seem to see the 'other side'. They talk to old dead family and friends, as if they're in the room, and become very peaceful. And right before they die, they always tell their family goodbye --as if they knew they were going to die.
As depressing as it may be for someone to die, it's comforting to know that they die peacefully in some cases.
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We had help from "RN" I believe... But what is RN short for?
My family was helped when my father died... We were all in the room with him, circled around him, as if we were about to sing Coombaya, except we sang Amazing Grace... Tears were in all of our eyes, and I remember running away at first, running to my room and hiding under my bed... I knew the moment would come, but I didn't want to see it... They pulled me out and dragged me back in, as we said goodbye to him... I can't even remember the last words he said to me, I was so overcome with terror... I didn't want to see him go... And before he was gone, laying there staring at the ceiling, he muttered the names of the ones he has lost... My mother sitting at the side of his bed, clasped to his shoulder, tears soaking the matress, my heart shattered... Ever since, it has always seemed that, though over time, I've peiced myself back together, I'm still missing peices...
My father died choking on his blood... Air was being blown into his nostrils by a machine behind us that hummed loud, and released some air in a harmonic sound to the last song in my father's ears... Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound... Even through all of this, my father died peacefully... And I suppose I am to go on the rest of my life disturbed...
Your mother is doing a good thing... If the people running that program (something similar to RN) did not step into our lives when they did, my father would have died a lot quicker, and my family might have even been homeless... So, though I have never seen her, heard her, or even know the slightest about her, I want to deeply thank her... God bless...
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this is probably the shot you amde that is the simpler and in same time so complex it'S jsut amazing. and since cancer is everywhere it'S touching eveybody we can'T look at it and said nothing!
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yes, my grandfather (who was the only father figure i've ever had) died several months ago from cancer. he was always so strong. he tried to hide it for so long. he did a good job, until it almost killed him three years ago. he was kept on treatments and he got better, he looked so healthy for awile. yes, it can be very decieving.
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I would not have understood this at all without the explanation. I get the idea that the use of masks can represent the covering of true emotion in the midst of this newfound crisis in the family, and yet the masked faces still seem intently focused on that little red ball of poison that thretens the life of the loved one. I really feel like the eyes are on that ball.
This one takes some real thought and contemplation, but its worth the time. Powerful image, and I think the ambiguity actually suits this piece, even if everyone can't understand or appreciate it. Nice work Dave, though I hope that wasn't inspired on an overly personal level. Cancer in a loved one is not an easy thing to deal with.
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I see theres a lot of people who say the colors arent very effecting. But in my opinion they are a strong key in the picture. Adding black would have been a little cliche' to the last mask. Yes, thats a good idea for showing taintedness or malicious feelings...but the use just would have thrown off the simplistic style. The white and red contrast are very nice, and it sort of reminds me of the starkness of a hospital or medical setting. I think its very nice and the concept behind it is one you dont see often.
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a close relative had cancer, she got cured thanks to medicine. This is a magnificient picture, it represents a little how it felt.
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wowzer dis iz amazingly awesome eye love it. eye think it shows exactly what u wanted it to
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I quite like the lighting and isolated colour.
I don't know if I quite feel the emotion behind it, but I always find it neat when you explain what you were getting at. Some artists would never do that, and some seem to enjoy it.
I like the shadows on the masks (under the eyes and stuff), but I would like to see them darker. It may not add much to the mood to have more contrast, but it always looks cool... sometimes looks cool
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Wow, this is really cool. I have a lot of family members with diferent forms of cancer, and this is really great.
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Cancer is no longer something to fear. Please check out my journal entries!
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yeah i didnt really get it. my dad passed from brain cancer in september. this doesnt really catch the feeling and the emotion though.
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Looks really lovely. Love the different shades. Great work.
Greg
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Nice work.
My dad is still recovering a bit from the colon cancer he was diagnosed with a few years ago and had removed. He still can't eat like he used to, he has to be careful with what foods he eats or he's in the washroom alot.
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