[Photo Special] Survive cancer and...

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[Photo Special] Survive cancer and give birth due to Corona (News Week Japanese version)

Express pain and emotions experienced in chemotherapy using a red laser pointer.The bones hurt as if they were fire, and they also show that their heads do not work well.

【写真特集】癌を生き延び、コロナ禍で出産する(ニューズウィーク日本版)

I was diagnosed with breast cancer on my 29th birthday on Russian photographers.She was scared and she was unacceptable.I didn't know how to spend it until I was completely cured.So, I decided to take this opportunity to turn the camera who has been shooting only the outside world. I wanted to create a vivid image that would tell me what people who faced serious illnesses felt, rather than simply hiding the fear of cancer.He hoped that cancer patients could inspire them to overcome difficulties.The hair began to come off with chemotherapy, so I cut off the long braid.This photo has become one of the works that symbolize the changes that my mind and body experienced.I kept shooting the appearance that changed at the stage of treatment.When the mental state was depressing, when you were full of confidence, when you were tired, you were tired, or when you were sinking into your introspection.He was struck by a strong nausea due to the side effects of the treatment and continued to shoot himself lying on the bed.During the trial and error, I noticed that the red night light would come to my emotions.Coincidentally, the prescribed chemotherapy drugs were red, and photos using red light were mass -produced.The illness was an opportunity to review my life.The only purpose of shooting was for the first time, but it changed a little after meeting other cancer patients at the hospital.When I showed her work to a friend of a good patient, she said that she was very close to what she felt during the treatment.While the body weakened and went out, shooting the work was the only activity that connected me before the onset of illness.It was at the center of my personality and a kind of healing.I realized that I was helped by the strengths of photos that can express things that cannot be expressed in words.Nevertheless, chemotherapy was so uncomfortable that the staple food Borscht did not pass through the throat.Like many patients, I just came up with the idea of "why I look like this."He suffered from the side effects of decreasing memory and concentration.I learned not only the fact that it is cancer, but also the treatment of cancer.

Photographs by Alyona kochetkova