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Bruno Liljefors - Cat hunting Birds (1883)

Memory of a Wooded Island in the Baltic Sea (Oak Trees by the Sea) - Carl Gustav Carus // Study of Clouds - John Constable // Hawk and Game - Bruno Liljefors // A Violin, Bagpipes, a Drum, a Music Score, and an Ormolu-Mounted Vase with Roses and Other Flowers on a Draped Ledge - Godefroy // Mother - Florence + the Machine

Adrian Landon Brooks

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The cancer affected my breasts, not my self-esteem!! Now, isn’t she lovely?? YOU are too!! 🎀🙏🏼🎀💕🙏🏼

Gassed. #fromwhereiride #igcycling #behindbars #cyclingphotos #cyclingpics #wymtm #bikeriding #cyclinglife #groadslikethese #roadslikethese #xplovax5evo #xausa #poweredbyacer (at Utah) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxDwI8_lKpc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=111mjdjwumres

Elena Xausa

My idea, when photographing Inka, was to approach in the same way as with any other woman who’d ask me to create nudes. I came to this, after I made a research on the visual representation of women after mastectomy. In many cases, they are pictured in a dramatic or a gloomy way, with the scars covered by their hands, flowers or otherwise. Such a gesture implies to me the feeling of shame, which does not go along with our purpose to empower confidence in women who lost one or both breasts due to cancer. Inka’s body tells a story, but it’s not only a story of the scars. It is also a story of the rediscovered joy of living, the inner sense of well being, the natural beauty of a woman and many more.

Gentle warrior. First diagnosed with a stage 3-B cancer in her right breast and lymph nodes in 2010, Inka has been fighting the disease for quite some time now. She went through one and a half years of intensive treatment and continued the follow-up medical care usual for cancer survivors. 10 years later, another malignant tumor appeared and she had to have her remaining left breast and lymph nodes in the armpit removed. Her cancer is a result of an inherited genetic mutation therefore she was advised to have her uterus and ovaries removed too. Inka finished the last round of chemo in May 2021 and decided to pose for photographs to celebrate the beauty of survival and encourage other women who struggle to accept their bodies after mastectomy.  

Pascale Taurua

Lynn Drexler - Ignited Bush, 1968

— Dorothea Tanning, from “All Hallows’ Eve”