DAY 350

SOCIAL & POLITICAL COMMENTARY

Health Care

DOCUMENTING ILLNESS AND ITS CAUSES

The health of an individual is a complex story that includes emotional, mental, and spiritual components as well as the obvious physical requirements. Health and its deterioration has a timeline associated with it. Approach the subject of health care by building a portfolio of images reflecting the complexity of the chosen illness and its causes. Illness comes with symptoms, symptoms come with causes, causes are rooted in lack of information. Investigate how the issue manifests, the conditions in which it flourishes, the people behind the disease, the way in which it is treated, addressed, communicated, or misunderstood.

Health care has a trickle-down effect—one generation passes information onto the next. Consider generations of health-care patterns and symptoms. Approach health care from the inside of the social body—the community. Compare communities, lore, and solutions. Follow health-care research and the process of defining a worthy health-care cause to explore. Photograph an undiluted and direct story to receive the largest impact from exploring the topic. —MLR