Brianna Privett

David Liban contacted me last year about using a few of my family photos for his documentary “Mortal Lessons”

“We are all going to die, yet we spend most of our life avoiding this fact, as if to mention death will bring it upon us sooner. Then when death strikes, we are devastated, in part because we are unprepared. And yet, some of life’s most valuable lessons are best learned in the face of death. This is the story of two extraordinary women facing their mortality head on as they battle lung cancer.”

And Aileen Roberts contacted me not to use a photo, but to use a caption from one of my photos in the same family series for her project about cancer, “Ties That Bind“:

“The day after the haircutting party was chemo, and after chemo we went wig shopping. Naturally, I bought a styrofoam head of my very own. I wanted 2, but I didn’t have enough room in my bag. This is Clio. Mom found me listening to Mozart and drinking red wine from a jam jar while I was painting her face. Mom just turned around and left the room. “