Immersed in Living Water


  • Photographer
    wendy sacks
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2010-2014
  • Technical Info
    Pigmented Digital Print

Immersed in Living Water While working as a Paediatric Emergency Physician, I carried a camera to document ill patients for teaching purposes and as a means of remembering cases. Photography unknowingly provided an outlet for waves of despair, a means for maintaining professionalism and composure, and separating self from distressing emotions. My sensitivities were inadvertently interwoven into photographs. In my mid thirties, I had to leave medicine due to severe arthritis. Although I missed caring for patients and working in medicine, I had to come to terms with knowing that I could not care for both family and patients due to my limitations. Instead, limitations became an opportunity to become a mother with freedom to express love and joy and an opportunity for creative liberty. Despite the increasingly difficult challenge of my joints deterioration and the need for reconstruction and joint replacement one by one, my love photography deepened as I discovered a world of art I had never fully explored, an artist inside myself I had never known, and a therapeutic diversion for my new life as a person in chronic pain. My role as a mother change as I was faced with new challenges. I brought the camera back into my life to capture my life at home. To perform some of the activities of daily living, an occupational therapist suggested I bathe with my young children since I could not lift them into the tub. Eventually, I brought my camera to the tub. When I looked through the lens this time, life and death looked different to me. Through the lens, I remembered my world of medicine, I remembered the children who were sick and had died in my care, the children who had been born and who had healed, the children whom I barely had time to mourn or celebrate their lives while working as a physician. Overwhelming feelings sealed away in my subconscious began to emerge. Wendy Sacks, Fine Art Photographer Lover of all things Photography

Story

Immersed in Living Water

While working as a Paediatric Emergency Physician, I carried a camera to document ill patients for teaching purposes and as a means of remembering cases. Photography unknowingly provided an outlet for waves of despair, a means for maintaining professionalism and composure, and separating self from distressing emotions. My sensitivities were inadvertently interwoven into photographs.
In my mid thirties, I had to leave medicine due to severe arthritis. Although I missed caring for patients and working in medicine, I had to come to terms with knowing that I could not care for both family and patients due to my limitations. Instead, limitations became an opportunity to become a mother with freedom to express love and joy and an opportunity for creative liberty. Despite the increasingly difficult challenge of my joints deterioration and the need for reconstruction and joint replacement one by one, my love photography deepened as I discovered a world of art I had never fully explored, an artist inside myself I had never known, and a therapeutic diversion for my new life as a person in chronic pain.
My role as a mother change as I was faced with new challenges. I brought the camera back into my life to capture my life at home. To perform some of the activities of daily living, an occupational therapist suggested I bathe with my young children since I could not lift them into the tub. Eventually, I brought my camera to the tub. When I looked through the lens this time, life and death looked different to me. Through the lens, I remembered my world of medicine, I remembered the children who were sick and had died in my care, the children who had been born and who had healed, the children whom I barely had time to mourn or celebrate their lives while working as a physician. Overwhelming feelings sealed away in my subconscious began to emerge.

Wendy Sacks, Fine Art Photographer
Lover of all things Photography

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