Finding subjects for this photography exhibit is harder than even I had originally thought. It is difficult for people to come forward, and harder still for people in a position of authority or resource to those people to grant me an opportunity or the audience to reach them. Helping me to succeed in this would expose an obvious flaw in our health system and the support resources it so strategically protects.
It is discouraging and more than a little frustrating as April is creeping closer and closer. Without subjects to photograph, there is no exhibit. However, that said, I can’t be beaten down so quickly… or quietly for that matter. If I must… I have good friends that I will shave down and punch until they cry.. and then I will photograph them. The show must go on… right?
This morning we taped an interview segment for the news on Cogeco! (It will air on channel 23 for Cogeco cable customers next week.) I was beyond nervous. I trembled and perspired like a mad dog in heat. Once or twice I feared I might be electrocuted by the microphone battery pack they had nestled down into my back forty. And …I sat alone on a stool with football stadium sized lights all around me revealing every unflattering nook and cranny that I try so hard daily to disguise. 
Images contribute to how we see ourselves, how we define and relate to the world, and what we perceive as significant or different. I decided to document the emotional cancer journey of strangers in order to capture the naked truth of it and then display it out in the open in an April 2009 exhibit for all to see. Still images overcome boundaries of language, skin colour, age, religious beliefs, education and socio-economic levels. It is simply put… people looking at people.
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