Facing the Monster: A Photographic Story of the Faces of Cancer. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Facing the Monster: A Photographic Story of the Faces of Cancer

Imelda Bell was diagnosed with breast cancer and was worried it would take away her creativity and passion as a photographer.  She started a diary to keep track of her journey and once sufficiently recovered from surgery, she began to take self-portraits in her studio to document the changes and emotions she felt during chemotherapy.  Initially, she thought that having chemotherapy would put her out of action for months on end with no respite, and Imelda wanted to get a message across to other people facing a diagnosis, that this isn’t the case. Treatment is full of ups and downs, but in between the downs, you can carry on and live and enjoy life. In “Facing the Monster” Imelda shares not only her emotional photographs, but also her diary, in the hopes that she can show people that you can still live while having treatment for cancer.

Imelda eventually started taking photos of other people with cancer and they each share some of their experience to accompany the photo, which Imelda took of them.

Imelda was born and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. She moved to England when she was 19 and completed a BA(Hons) in Drama, Television & Theatre Studies in Winchester. She then went on to work in broadcast and studio engineering for companies including Channel 4 Television and ITV. After children came along, she devoted time to being a mother and discovered a love for photography and photoshop through photographing her children. She then joined some photographic societies, learned more about her camera and photographic techniques, building up her skills. She is now one of the country's top portrait photographers and has won many awards with several associations. She is a double craftsman with the Guild of Photographers having achieved this in both digital art and portraiture. She was not only awarded a Fellowship with the Master Photographers Association for her body of work "Faces of Cancer", but this was also named "Best Fellowship Panel of 2018". Imelda has other books and projects in the planning and continues to work as a portrait photographer in Kent. For more of Imelda photography, please visit www.photographybyimelda.co.uk