Rita and the Red Blanket Geoffrey Ansel Agrons © All rights reserved.
Although facilities dedicated to the care of degenerative brain disorders tend to be named euphemistically (A Place for Mom;Life Guidance Neighborhood; The Village), the disease is exquisitely cruel, relentless, and indifferent to sentimentality. I was a physician before I became a photographer. I imagined I was no stranger to death and dying. Nevertheless, I could not shake the lingering sense that my unbidden and honest emotional responses to my disappearing family included feelings that were taboo.
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Fa(r)ther Figure Geoffrey Ansel Agrons © All rights reserved.
Hospice Mirror Geoffrey Ansel Agrons © All rights reserved.
Tenderness coexisted with body horror and existential terror of my own inevitable demise. Through the lens, I hoped to capture my parents' changing world on my own terms. I sought to confront the paradox of my receding presence within that world, the poignant erasure of memory, and the welter of my conflicting responses to our inevitable dissolution and decay.
Hospice Nurse and Rita Geoffrey Ansel Agrons © All rights reserved.
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