Without Borders: The International Face of Cancer

February 10, 2011

The Connecticut Challenge is excited to be welcoming acclaimed photographer Carolyn Taylor to the Fairfield Public Library, March 24th, for the next event in our CT Challenge Speaker Series. 

Carolyn was an accomplished photographer in the middle of her career when she was diagnosed with ovarian and endometrial cancers in 2006. Inspired by her own ordeal and the experiences of other cancer survivors, Carolyn won a grant from British Airways and received ten free international flights to photograph women living with cancer around the globe. Her goal through this project was to show how women living with cancer are intrinsically linked.

To date, she has traveled to Nepal, India, Israel, South Africa, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Kenya, and Tanzania, and the project has expanded and grown. Carolyn has been working with the Union for International Cancer Control to expand her project to photographically document the experience of men and children living with cancer in addition to women living with cancer. She has humanistically described for us, her viewers, that which data and words cannot. It is an experience not to be missed. For the first time, Carolyn has agreed to tell the story behind her photographs to an exclusive audience at the Fairfield Public Library, in a program presented by the CT Challenge.

The program is free but registration is required. 

Click here to register.

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