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21/31 Dianna is a traveling photographic essay of one woman's journey through breast cancer. It has been featured widely in the Boston area, including shows at Harvard and Radcliffe.
The exhibit consists of twelve photographs depicting varying stages of Dianna's treatment and recovery. Included here are four selected images.
Parties interested in booking the exhibit to assist in highlighting breast cancer awareness or arranging speaking engagements should contact Dianna Matherly directly,
When Dianna wanted information on what she would look like after the operation, she was given several pamphlets containing stick figures with "X"s across the middle supposedly representing women without their breasts. No one photograph was available to show her what a woman who has undergone mastectomy would look like without reconstructive surgery.
It also seemed as if reconstructive surgery were implicitly the right option. In Diana’s case she decided to not undergo the lengthy and oftentimes painful breast reconstructive surgery but could not receive a decent image of her physical future.
So it began as a clinical documentation of Dianna’s operation. As we went further into the project it could not help but become more personal and emotional rather than a cold clinical project. Diana and myself began to receive powerful feedback from the community and that in turn gave Dianna great direction within her healing process.
I can say that for myself this project gave me the fine tuning I needed not only as a photographer but as a friend and a woman in a society which is now only beginning to see that this cancer is omnipresent.
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