Beautiful and heartbreaking New Yorker photo essay. And fuck cancer.
June 1, 2016 6:46 AM   Subscribe

Portrait of a Friendship in the Face of Cancer

Dan Winters photographs Brett Kilroe as he makes his way through treatment.
posted by nevercalm (9 comments total) 6 users marked this as a favorite
 
This was hard to look at, but I'm glad that it exists. Great photos and documentation.
posted by carter at 7:09 AM on June 1, 2016


Beautiful and moving. Dan Winters is an amazing editorial photographer and if you're not familiar with his work you should check it out.
posted by chris24 at 7:34 AM on June 1, 2016


I never knew until recently, how much the morphine sleep face looks like someone screaming.

Morphine has such a legend around it that I always imagined the sleep it brings would be peaceful and serene. Instead it looks like a silent scream and sounds like a death rattle.
posted by teleri025 at 7:59 AM on June 1, 2016 [3 favorites]


Beautiful, haunting, courageous. This is humanity.
posted by bologna on wry at 8:08 AM on June 1, 2016 [2 favorites]


Thank you.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 8:13 AM on June 1, 2016


Ugh. My best friend has cancer, so all of this is familiar to me -- the port, the radiation mask, the hair, the hospital bracelet. My friend doesn't want pictures taken, and I don't blame her. When it's all over -- and hopefully that means it'll all be over because she's in great health and we no longer have to spend our days together sitting in a waiting room or a chemo suite -- I just want to think of her as rosy and healthy and strong and all better.
posted by BlahLaLa at 10:17 AM on June 1, 2016


Many thanks.

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posted by allthinky at 10:51 AM on June 1, 2016 [1 favorite]


Friend of friends - I can say he was loved by many.
posted by maggiemaggie at 11:51 AM on June 1, 2016 [1 favorite]


Hugs to you, BlahLaLa, and to anyone else struggling with cancer or watching someone else do so.
posted by chicainthecity at 3:19 PM on June 1, 2016


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