A poll of the general public revealed that 53% of people have never heard of sarcoma and only 26% knew it was a cancer. Our editor Alice Snape has been working on a very special online photographic exhibition ‘Sarcoma and You’ to raise awareness about this rare cancer of the bone and soft tissue.
Each portrait in the Sarcoma and You series captures the effects of sarcoma cancer and body image, featuring some of the sarcoma community. #sarcomaandyou
Instagram : Sarcoma and you
Photos by Alison Romanczuk / Words by Alice Snape
“Having cancer never made me hate my body, but having a baby has truly made me realise how amazing it is – it has fought my sarcoma and grown a mini human!”
Pippa Hatch, 21, Reading, Marketing Manager
“People should be proud of the scars they wear – no one should ever feel ashamed”
Jordan Anderton, 22, fundraising manager, Plymouth
“I think the project has been powerful in many ways, because I’m not just a photographer, I am a patient, there is total trust and understanding”
Alison Romanczuk, 53, photographer, London
“I would have loved to have met Katherine”
Alice Snape, 32, editor of Connect, London
View all the portraits in the series: sarcoma.org.uk/sarcoma-and-you
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