Look Now Project

DROP-IN SESSIONS for

ANONYMOUS BARE CHEST CLOSE-UPS

Tuesday, July 10, 2018 (4-7pm)

Wednesday, July 11, 2018 (10am-1pm)

 

 

We are nearing the end of our principal photography schedule and are still looking for participants. Please contact us. 

Details are in this Syracuse University Press Release from June 27, 2018 

HAVE YOU BATTLED BREAST CANCER?

DO YOU WANT TO SHARE YOUR STORY TO HELP OTHERS?

ARE YOU A CENTRAL NEW YORK RESIDENT?

Syracuse University professor Tula Goenka and Syracuse photographer Cindy Bell are looking for survivors and fighters to participate in the Look Now: Facing Breast Cancer multimedia exhibition at SU’s Point of Contact Gallery in October 2018.

We are compiling a multimedia exhibition about the look of breast cancer and need people willing to be photographed with their clothes on, accompanied by a close-up of their bare chest. 

Click here to fill out the Long Questionnaire for portrait + close-up. 

The data collected in this form will be used solely to create a database of participants; none of the information you provide will be used beyond the scope of this project.

Email looknowproject@gmail.com for more information.

Look Now: Facing Breast Cancer is a photo exhibition of breast cancer survivors using a series of clothed and bare chest portraits, and an accompanying interactive documentary. The multimedia project aims to break down the barrier between a survivor’s public persona and their private struggles with the disease. The project was started by Tula Goenka, who is a breast cancer survivor. She is also a filmmaker, author, human rights activist and professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University.

Professor Goenka is currently looking for residents of Central New York to participate in the multimedia project. Her goal is to address the human rights aspect of access to health care, and how differences in income, race, ethnicity and geographic location can impact diagnosis, treatment and survival. Any Central New York resident who has been diagnosed and treated for breast cancer is encouraged to apply.

The next phase of the Look Now: Facing Breast Cancer Project will include a website that will feature images, provide support and list resources; be an artistic testament to living well after the disease; and above all, empower the people who participate.

Cindy Bell, the famed Syracuse photographer, is going to create the portraits.

Please email looknowproject@gmail.com for any questions.

This short documentary was produced in 2010 by Tula Goenka as a pilot for the Look Now: Facing Breast Cancer Project.