This is my first post but I've been lurking for awhile and trying to take in the wealth of knowledge here!
A little backstory....I'm currently 19. About 3 years ago, my mom died two days after my 16th birthday from rapidly growing ovarian cancer. In November 2005, a CT scan of her abdomen shows clean. 4 months later, the cancer had spread to her brain. Most people don't know a lot about ovarian cancer and not a lot is known about it.
I'm wanting to do a photo project on this. Right now, the idea in it's current form is to contact several oncologists and ask them to mention to their patients about this. I would like to have 5-10 women allow me to document them in their treatment and home life once a week over the course of several months. During those several months, I would also write a story to accompany the photos.
Now what to do with the photos...
I've thought about trying to make a book from it and get it donated from a publishing company. Then all sales of the book, the proceeds would go to the American Cancer Society. I've also thought about doing a gallery showing with donations taken to be donated, again, to the American Cancer Society.
So now that I've laid out a base idea for what I'd like to do....anyone have any ideas on how to execute it? Help me fine tune my plan? Has anyone ever done anything like this here? I know it's been done for more of the common cancers, such as breast cancer, but I've never seen it done for ovarian cancer.
Thanks for any and all help you guys can give.
Matt Frauenhoffer |
