“You have cancer” are three terrifying words, but our culture does little to ease the fear. New Beginnings: The Triumph of 120 Cancer Survivorsfollows 120 survivors who discovered that those words were the start of a new beginning, not an end to their lives. Their stories inspire and provide hope for anyone diagnosed with cancer, their families and their friends.
photographic portraits of men, women, and families of children. They vary in age ethnicity and diagnosis, but they all share the ability to turn a diagnosis of cancer into a positive force in their lives. This is a project by and for cancer survivors: their words, my photographs, in collaboration with their ideas and sensibilities.