Making a Difference
One day I get a call from a lady named Jackson Hunsicker.
“I want you to do an image for a book I’m doing. There’s no money involved.”
“Oh?”
“I’ve gotten lots of photographers to do it and a number of them suggested I get you.”
“Really?”
“The book is aimed at women with breast cancer. The intention is to encourage them to have chemotherapy to help kill the cancer.”
Now, this was quite some time ago, and I asked why they had to be persuaded to do this. She explained that too many women were horrified at the idea that the chemo would cause them to go bald. This overwhelmed the obvious medical benefits.
Jackson continued, saying that it was such a strong prejudice that it was killing people. The book she was trying to do would ...
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