Beth - I KICKED CANCER'S ASS
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PrizeHonorable Mention
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PhotographerPamela Hanlan, United States
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Beth had just finished her treatments for breast cancer and wanted me to document her testimony of the battle. I will use her words - "I HAVE CANCER", " I have cancer", "Why me ... why not me", "Positive attitude only", I can beat this Mother ......", "I just want answers", Thank God for Chad. My rock", "Life goes on", "I want it OUT", "The Wait", "This is taking so long", "Learning to live without Mom in my life" (her mother passed while she was in treatment), "first treatment ....final treatment", "I kicked cancer's ASS". LIFE GOES ON. We first worked in my studio, then her childhood home.
It has taken me a while to consider myself a photographer. In my lifetime I have been daughter, sister, wife, mother, empty nester, grandmother, great grandmother, widow and partner. Never in those years was I a photographer. Frankly except for family memories, I didn't have time. Some might and have said that that I am stubborn. I prefer determined. I have also been described as quirky, but only by those who say they love me. I have always seen stories in the world around me but without a camera didn't have a way to tell these stories. Now that I have a camera, the stories are being told
Awards Two Bronze Awards in Rise Awards, finalist and honorable mentions in Urban Photography Awards, Honorable Mentions in 2020 and 2021 International Photo Awards, two honorable mentions in Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, Honorable mentions in Budapest International Foto Awards, Honorable mentions and 3rd place in amateur portrait awards in Monochrome Photo Awards, Short listed Siena Creative Awards, Ist place self portrait in 16th Pollux Awards, Merit Award Fotonostrum Portrait Awards, overall amateur winner Julia Margaret Cameron Awards 2021, second place product, IPA, non professional, hon. mentions and editor's choices IPA, curatorial choice PX3 State of the World, Silver Budapest Awards, official selection London International Creative, published FotoNostrum Magazine. 2024 - Gold and Hon Men.Budapest, 2 silvers PX3, IPA 5 official selections, published Loosenart, finalist Siena.
