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Posted above is a photo of Worley Photography owner Kathy Worley and BBGH Diagnostic Imaging Department's Bette Gerlach (back to camera) displaying one of the 37 photographs Box Butte General Hospital has commissioned commemorating a survivor of breast cancer from the BBGH service area. The hospital started the tradition in late 2003.
Each autographed photo features a breast cancer survivor. One photograph portrays three women who had gone through cancer treatment together (so the total count of women survivors represented is actually 39).
“We wanted to do this as a way to show the public that many of the women they see on the street each day is a survivor, a sign of hope for others who may have to seek treatment,” said Bonnie Wallace, BBGH’s Marketing and Outreach manager.
The display is called “Photographic Celebration of Breast Cancer Survivors,” and is located on a wall near the hospital’s Diagnostic Imaging Department as a source of inspiration. “That way, those who have been diagnosed with breast cancer can see that they, too, can be a survivor,” Wallace said.
A few of the women have since passed away, but only a few. “Some thought we should take down the photos of those who have left us,” Wallace said. “But no – they were survivors, in every sense of the word. And just because they’ve passed on doesn’t change that.”
Worley has been the photographer of each of the women since the projects inception. “I love doing these photographs,” she said. “It is a sense of pride for me and I’m really happy to be a part of it.”
The photos are done tastefully in black and white, often in the home of the woman being photographed, surrounded by the things she loves -- be it loved ones or objects that have special meaning. However, viewers will note each photograph has a bit of color in it, and it isn’t hard to guess the hue. “Pink is the official color for Breast Cancer Awareness, so I hand paint something in that color in each of the photographs,” Worley said.
Gerlach, ARRT (R) (M) (CT), has long been an advocate of Breast Cancer Awareness. She urges women in the community who are cancer survivors to contact Worley if they so wish. “We don’t know every woman who has taken on this particular battle,” Gerlach said. “So step up and be counted if you are one. You are an inspiration for us all.”
Contact Worley Photography at 762-3333 to make arrangements.
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