Michelle Jeon
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"Look, fishy!" Shows the fish in the fish tank in the first floor of the Duke University Children's Hospital as well as the hospital itself. He was very fixated on capturing a picture of the fish, but he has not only captured an image of his subject, but the subject's surroundings, and further, his environment and world as he battles monosomy 7 (type of leukemia).
"I got it!" My little photographer would always say, "I got it!" whenever he took a picture. Taken at Duke University Ronald McDonald House.
"Where are you most affected by Parkinson's?" "My feet." "I like your shoes." "Thank you, they're new."
"Look, fishy!" Shows the fish in the fish tank in the first floor of the Duke University Children's Hospital as well as the hospital itself. He was very fixated on capturing a picture of the fish, but he has not only captured an image of his subject, but the subject's surroundings, and further, his environment and world as he battles monosomy 7 (type of leukemia).
Purple Journey
2014
Pediatric Bone Marrow
Transplant Unit
Community
2013
Wellness Center
Parkinson's Fitness Group
I worked on two portrait photography projects with the Duke University Hospital and my professor, Doctor John Moses:
Purple Journey
A bright, energetic, and curious boy who loves everything purple tells his story with images, showing the rest of the world the strength of innocence in the face of leukemia.
Community
A disease brings unique individuals together, and they form a community that unites them and their families together in the journey battling against the illness.
As a photographer, I aim to place the viewer in the perspective of the photo's subject as a way of "true" communication--exploring and unerstanding the unique viewpoint of an individual on their journey in life, and in this case, the journey with a medical condition.
*Duke University Hospital and the people who participated in my project has full rights of my photographs.*