Documenting your life ... and finally your own death!

[Keith]

This may have been posted at RFF previously but it's a fascinating article about a photographer and film maker who chose to document a very large part of his life daily with Polaroids ... and then finally his own demise when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. There is a link within the article to the entire collection of Polaroid images in chronological order. Jamie Livingston

 

[Archiver]

This is a really interesting project, and one that Polaroids suited perfectly. Being instant, you could take a picture then immediately write a date on the back. It's also very sad when you understand the story.


A number of years ago, I met a photographer online named Richard Wanderman. We exchanged a few pleasant emails/messages through flickr, and I lost track of him. Early this year, I thought of him again, and found his flickr account's last images were of him in hospital. I immediately searched for him online and discovered that he lost his battle with cancer only a few months before. Apparently, he was a very active photographer and computer guy, and many people mourned his passing. Who knows how many other flickr accounts hold similar stories?


https://www.flickr.com/photos/richardspics/


https://www.ped30.com/2019/02/20/apple-richard-wanderman-brain-cancer/

 

[Out to Lunch]

Famed photographer and cineast, Ed van der Elsken documented his dying days. The title of this piece is ''Bye''. Unfortunately, I cannot find it online. For an overview of van der Elsken's work have a look here: http://www.edvanderelsken.nl/?page=home&language=en

 

[Out to Lunch]

Oops...all in Dutch... Perhaps start here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxsMlX6W7zw