MARK
When I met Maggie I was looking for someone who wore the “Marks” of deep anguish such as those that I had internalised.
She was perfect.
We talked for a long time and then one day we decided we were ready to release the pain, and to be alive again.
Everything happened in a short time inside a small theatre. We didn't plan the shooting. There was a spotlight shining from above onto her body.
I didn't ask her to do anything; she moved her own body following her instinct, and I took photographs following mine.
At the end of the session looking at the photos she told me that for the first time in her life she felt free and proud to show her belly furrowed by deep “Marks”, an enduring reminder of a difficult liver transplant.
“Mark” is a series of five photographs that are a visual diary that wend through those moments, showing the time when we are frightened and we feel impotent (Mark 1); the time when we are furious with an incomprehensible punishment (Mark 2); the time when we acquiesce to the situation (Mark 4), and at last when we have recovered from it and we are ready to be reborn (Mark 5).
I am very proud to have taken part in that unique moment.
After many years the immunosuppressant medications have caused her breast cancer and in 2012 she has undergone a radical mastectomy and the loss of her right breast.
Maggie is continuing to fight for her life with great courage and remains one of the people ‘most full of life’ I have ever met.
She was perfect.
We talked for a long time and then one day we decided we were ready to release the pain, and to be alive again.
Everything happened in a short time inside a small theatre. We didn't plan the shooting. There was a spotlight shining from above onto her body.
I didn't ask her to do anything; she moved her own body following her instinct, and I took photographs following mine.
At the end of the session looking at the photos she told me that for the first time in her life she felt free and proud to show her belly furrowed by deep “Marks”, an enduring reminder of a difficult liver transplant.
“Mark” is a series of five photographs that are a visual diary that wend through those moments, showing the time when we are frightened and we feel impotent (Mark 1); the time when we are furious with an incomprehensible punishment (Mark 2); the time when we acquiesce to the situation (Mark 4), and at last when we have recovered from it and we are ready to be reborn (Mark 5).
I am very proud to have taken part in that unique moment.
After many years the immunosuppressant medications have caused her breast cancer and in 2012 she has undergone a radical mastectomy and the loss of her right breast.
Maggie is continuing to fight for her life with great courage and remains one of the people ‘most full of life’ I have ever met.
