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When documenting loss creates art you're afraid to witness

I photographed my father in hospice every day for two weeks and now I can't look at the images but I can't delete them either.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The impulse to capture and the inability to confront can coexist in paralyzing tension.

Ideas that help explain it
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