Beautiful Body, Unbreakable Spirit

• Prize
  Silver in Book/Fine Art, Bronze in Book/People
• Photographer
  Tash Damjanovic, Canada
• Date of Photograph
  2021
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This book is about seven women who took up dragon boat racing after living through breast cancer, which is often compared to a dragon to be slain. It explores their struggle, transformation, and empowerment, and also illustrates the diversity of relationships between one’s body and emotional identity, especially around the sense of womanhood. The dragon boat movement originated as a way to resist the idea that breast cancer was by definition a life-limiting diagnosis, and it has since become a global movement. It’s a story of individual triumph, and of people connected by a desire to live.