father’s memory. These seven photographers explore the unknown waters of grief in different ways. They tell stories of love and pain.
James Friedman visited Dorothy Friedman when she was sick. He saw her almost every day in the last eighteen months of her life. She allowed him to photograph her as she had done for years, ever since he was a child with a camera.
The photographer Argus Paul Estabrook recalls his mother calling from the hospital and flying from Seoul to the United States to be with his relatives. The battle of his father with pancreatic carcinoma is a blur. Estabrook’s dad was only given three weeks to live after his diagnosis. It’s Not an End tells the story of a father’s illness.
Gary was inspired by his grandson Karen Khachaturov when he discovered he had bladder cancer. The Armenian photographer recalls that “he was diagnosed in 2017”. It was a shock for everyone. Over the course of a week, Gary and the photographer created a series playful, uncanny photographs. Khachaturov, his grandfather, and their friends immersed themselves into a sweet-coated fantasy world of their own making, despite or maybe because of the shock.