The Wounded Photographer: The Genesis of Jo Spence's Camera Therapy. (Feature).

From: Afterimage | Date: November 1, 2001| Author: Dennett, Terry | Copyright information

Jo Spence's photographs of her body and her disease are not simply the private record of a cancer sufferer. They explicitly tell us that having breast cancer is a social experience. The photos urge us to see highly social issues, how this society deals with a woman's body, cultural implications of the disease, and medical professionalism and authoritarianism. Spence's insightful social criticism and search for survival as a dignified person provide us with power.

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