The SCAR
Project is touring Houston right now.
Photographer David Jay is the amazing creator behind this awareness
campaign which features large scale portraits of women in various stages of
breast cancer between the ages of 18-36.
Jay started photographing young women with breast cancer after a dear
friend was diagnosed at the age of 29.
Years later, he continues to capture the beauty, the suffering, the
triumph, the devastation and the healing that these women are faced with. These women are the voice for so many of us
stricken with breast cancer. But really,
any cancer.
I visited the
SCAR project last week. When I walked in
the door, I wasn’t prepared for the photo hovering over me of a young women
with one breast, tears running down her face.
It was so heavy, I wasn’t sure what I was feeling. Jay was there and he gave the visitors a
heartfelt tour of his work. Oh, he is so
passionate about what he does. He has
shown love to these women and connected with them in such a profound way. This project has many deep messages that can
only be defined by those being photographed and those viewing the photographs.
What I have
realized is this- my scars are the most difficult side effect of breast cancer
that I have had to endure. I see them every
day, several times a day. With time they
will not go away, they will always be a part of me and that is damning,
encouraging, sad and beautiful.
The SCAR
Project, October 17-28 at Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Inc.
Be Well,
