Saskia was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002. She underwent a breast amputation, chemotherapy, radiation and hormone therapy and later a mastectomy diep flap breast reconstruction, using tissue from her belly wall.
Early 2018 the breast cancer returned in her abdomen, in which hormone-sensitive metastases were found. It’s the best of all bad scenarios. There is no cure, various forms of medication keep it under control. From that moment on I follow Saskia with my view camera, raw and intimate. And photograph the places, objects and loved ones that are important to her. For this I draw 4 x 5 inch polaroid negatives that are hand printed double sided with platinum palladium on cotton paper, collected in one unique artist‘s book.