honorable mention
Lucas Garra spain
title
Karkinos. Triple-Negative
It displayed the first references regarding breast tumors.
It was Hippocrates (V century B.C.) the one that named the tumors after the Greek word kapkivoc (karkinos – crab), because the way tumors spread resembled a crab’s limbs.
The first effective diagnoses tests (mammograms) started to be done at the beginning of the XX century. The chemotherapy began to be administered on the second half of that century.
Among all the historical dates regarding the Karkinos, the most important one for me is December 23th, 2015. That day my family suffered a severe blow. Manuela, my wife, had Triple-Negative breast cancer that was a 95% level of aggressiveness.
That same day I decided to document the long and tough process ahead: the psychological shock, telling our son, the secondary effects from the medication...
Knowing how you can react to this situation it is difficult to know. The first thing I did was kiss my wife and take a picture of that moment with my mobile phone.The image didn’t turn out to be very well but it was the seed this work.
According to the last report from the WHO, there were 14 million new cases in 2012 and a 70% increase was foreseen during the next decades.
With Karkinos I would love to emphasize a kind of breast cancer, the Triple-Negative. Unfortunately, still has no customized drugs depending on the patient.
Karkinos shows the human, intimal and familiar side that many women suffering from breast cancer. I want to believe that this work can motivate other women to take prevention tests.
See the process from inside can help to make others understand the different stages to go through.
(Work in progress)
Documentary photographer and member of the design team, photography and graphic editing of a spanish Newspaper.
Author of reports in different Media and magazines, fotodocumentales projects, solo exhibitions and photo documentary book Silence, Twentieth anniversary of the signing of peace agreed in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2015).
Photography workshops with Ernesto Bazán, Emilio Morenati, Pep Bonet, Ricky Dávila, Jose Manuel Navia, Cristina García Rodero, Oscar Molina and Sergi Camara, among other.
Individual exhibitions:
- La memoria del Sahara.
- Deleitosa, 60 años después.
- Silence. Twentieth anniversary of the signing of peace agreed in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Awards:
- First prize for photojournalism of the Advisory Council of Radio and Spanish TV for the report Deleitosa, 60 years later (2009)
- Honorable Mention in the photojournalism contest City of Badajoz (Spain) for the report, The last of the zoo (2010)
- Semifinalist in the SIPA (Siena International Photo Awards) 2016 with the work Karkinos
- Semifinalist in the Magnum Photography Awards/Lens Culture 2016 with the work Karkinos.
- Semifinalist in the Signo Editores International Photo Awards 2016 with the work Karkinos.
- (Competition in process) Finalist in the World Report Award Documenting Humanity / Photon Spanish author 2016, with the work Karkinos.
Projects highlight:
- In the ghetto (2006)
- La memoria del Sahara (2008)
- Deleitosa, 60 años después (2008-2010)
- Perlora, holiday town (2009)
- Cullera beach (2010);
- Matacucas (2010-2012)
- The last of the zoo (2011)
- Silence (2012 – 2015)
- Karkinos. Triple-Negative (2015…) Work in progress.
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entry description
Edwin Smith discovered at Thebes in 1862 the oldest medical document known to date, presumably written by Imhotep.It displayed the first references regarding breast tumors.
It was Hippocrates (V century B.C.) the one that named the tumors after the Greek word kapkivoc (karkinos – crab), because the way tumors spread resembled a crab’s limbs.
The first effective diagnoses tests (mammograms) started to be done at the beginning of the XX century. The chemotherapy began to be administered on the second half of that century.
Among all the historical dates regarding the Karkinos, the most important one for me is December 23th, 2015. That day my family suffered a severe blow. Manuela, my wife, had Triple-Negative breast cancer that was a 95% level of aggressiveness.
That same day I decided to document the long and tough process ahead: the psychological shock, telling our son, the secondary effects from the medication...
Knowing how you can react to this situation it is difficult to know. The first thing I did was kiss my wife and take a picture of that moment with my mobile phone.The image didn’t turn out to be very well but it was the seed this work.
According to the last report from the WHO, there were 14 million new cases in 2012 and a 70% increase was foreseen during the next decades.
With Karkinos I would love to emphasize a kind of breast cancer, the Triple-Negative. Unfortunately, still has no customized drugs depending on the patient.
Karkinos shows the human, intimal and familiar side that many women suffering from breast cancer. I want to believe that this work can motivate other women to take prevention tests.
See the process from inside can help to make others understand the different stages to go through.
(Work in progress)
about the photographer
Lucas Garra. Spain. 1971Documentary photographer and member of the design team, photography and graphic editing of a spanish Newspaper.
Author of reports in different Media and magazines, fotodocumentales projects, solo exhibitions and photo documentary book Silence, Twentieth anniversary of the signing of peace agreed in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2015).
Photography workshops with Ernesto Bazán, Emilio Morenati, Pep Bonet, Ricky Dávila, Jose Manuel Navia, Cristina García Rodero, Oscar Molina and Sergi Camara, among other.
Individual exhibitions:
- La memoria del Sahara.
- Deleitosa, 60 años después.
- Silence. Twentieth anniversary of the signing of peace agreed in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Awards:
- First prize for photojournalism of the Advisory Council of Radio and Spanish TV for the report Deleitosa, 60 years later (2009)
- Honorable Mention in the photojournalism contest City of Badajoz (Spain) for the report, The last of the zoo (2010)
- Semifinalist in the SIPA (Siena International Photo Awards) 2016 with the work Karkinos
- Semifinalist in the Magnum Photography Awards/Lens Culture 2016 with the work Karkinos.
- Semifinalist in the Signo Editores International Photo Awards 2016 with the work Karkinos.
- (Competition in process) Finalist in the World Report Award Documenting Humanity / Photon Spanish author 2016, with the work Karkinos.
Projects highlight:
- In the ghetto (2006)
- La memoria del Sahara (2008)
- Deleitosa, 60 años después (2008-2010)
- Perlora, holiday town (2009)
- Cullera beach (2010);
- Matacucas (2010-2012)
- The last of the zoo (2011)
- Silence (2012 – 2015)
- Karkinos. Triple-Negative (2015…) Work in progress.
back to gallery