Curator Selection / 2013 / /

Trash The Bride - Sarhea wants to wear her wedding dress once more

Young mother Sarhea [Zo Niet Saar] wants to wear her wedding dress once more.
Sarhea/Saar suffers from Neuro Borreliose Lyme disease stage 3. She can't walk or eat anymore, she sometimes stops breathing when in severe brain cramps - 3 attacks a day - and she needs heavy doses of morfine.
From a young and vibrant mother of two, she now lays in bed 24/7. Lyme destroyed a wonderful women, and her family. One of her wishes was to feel like a happy bride again, as she loves her husband so much and will treasure the memories of their beautiful wedding day untill the day she dies.

Melanie E. Rijkers (1971 Bakel, Pays-Bas) is formally known as photo artist MeRy. Professional Fine Art Photographer, BFA 1996 St. Joost School of Art & Design. She lives and works in La Haye/The Hague.
Specialty: #Eyespiration, to see things other people don't.

Awards Professional bookcover 2nd prize, 2007
Altered Images 1st prize, 2012