This isn’t the kind of article I normally do, so you’re going to have to bear with me.

We talk a lot here about cameras.  About the newest kind of cameras or how awesome a particular brand of camera is or things like that.  But we seldom get the chance to talk so clearly about how cameras make people’s lives better.

This is why I’m happy to be taking a stab at the kind of post I don’t normally do.  No breathless wonder, no scorn, no ain’t-it-cool excitement.  This is all about a photojournalist who’d been recording battles for years.  Now, she faced her own with breast cancer.  She records her experience with the disease here, describing how she fears for not getting to watch her son grow up, how her camera brought her family closer together, how cancer has a way of re-ordering the world, and even, and I’ll spoiler here, how the sheer liberation of the words “cancer-free” feels.

This is a great look at the ability cameras have to improve life.  They preserve memories, they capture truth, and even at your lowest they can be a fighting tool.

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