Photo-Essays of Death

Though it is nothing she would have wished for, in a relatively short time Nancy Borowick became an expert in photographing death.  Both of her parents had advanced cancer with poor prognoses and she chronicled their lives during their final years and months.

Borowick’s photo essays document a series of progressions toward death, taken by a professional photographer who knew what was coming.  These photos are moving and instructional.

See: A Mother's Illness, a daughter's Duty (NY Times, January 30, 2015) and Side by Side, Battling Cancer and Sending Off the Bride (October 18, 2015)

Photo from the Times Collection