Women of the Sea

For generations women have sought the sea for health reasons. The ocean has long been recognised for its healing capacities, a place where we can find momentary peace, and use it as an agent to reawaken feelings.

This photographic project explores cancer; it invites emotions, sensations and the turbulent nature that cancer creates, the way it resonates through families. It is an exploration into identity, living with a hereditary gene mutation, BRCA2. The mutation significantly increases your likelihood of having breast and ovarian cancer. With cancer comes loss; the loss of loved ones, loss of parts of yourself. But loss is also change. Often something uncontrollable, we turn to the natural world to gain some semblance of stability.

My current project, ‘Women of the Sea’, has evolved into a celebration of women. Women who have had cancer, women who are impacted by it, women who have lost their sisters, mothers, daughters, aunts, grandmothers, friends.

Stay tuned!

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