The Beauty & The Crab


  • Photographer
    Marie AFDJENE
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    From 15.04.2015 to 07.09.2017

This photographic expression covers more than two years of Dorothée's life, a contemporary danser who had a breast cancer. It shows the relationship Dorothée had with her body and with this illness. It illustrates her ordeals, her times of sorrow, her doubts and her questionings. Moreover, it shows how she succeeded to take distance with this beast. A project being built together, with no voyeurism or pathos. An authentic account of life of this struggle, of these moments we all know in one way or another, moments sufferers mainly go through in silence and loneliness.

Story

This photographic expression covers more than two years of Dorothée's life, a contemporary danser who had a breast cancer.
It shows the relationship Dorothée had with her body and with this illness. It illustrates her ordeals, her times of sorrow, her doubts and her questionings. Moreover, it shows how she succeeded to take distance with this beast.
A project being built together, with no voyeurism or pathos. An authentic account of life of this struggle, of these moments we all know in one way or another, moments sufferers mainly go through in silence and loneliness.

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