You Will Know Me by the Scars I Bear
About the project:
"Behind The Scars is a photography campaign by Sophie Mayanne that began in 2017. Subsequently curating an editorial around the idea of scars, I decided to pursue the idea equally a personal project. The project celebrates scars of all shapes and sizes, and the stories backside them. Featuring both men, women and children - the images encourage people to comprehend their stories, and the pare they are in. Whether you lot have a scar or non, the stories and images strike a chord, and encourage you to think differently about your body - and journey in life".
MODELS STORIES
ADELE:
"In 2014, I was diagnosed with Ewings Sarcoma, a bone cancer. I had chemo for nearly a year and several surgeries for bone transplantations in my arm. They took pieces of bone from my leg and thigh. One time, my transplant bankrupt, so I had a major surgery which took 8 hours. In two years I had x surgeries and I have one planned for November 2017."
ANNA
"In Baronial 2016 a lorry ran over my arm: the bike stopped on my elbow earlier reversing off once again, taking my os and pare with it. Over the year I've had 5 surgeries, nearly recently a bone graft and a muscle-flap skin graft from my dorsum. Clarissa Pinkola Estés says 'The doors to the world of the wild Self are few only precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door'. I love this! In my scars I find pride, sensitivity and beauty. My arm was remade of myself. But at that place is also anger and deep pain: scar tissue is tough, dry out, and inflexible. Information technology limits farther the movement of my arm. I don't remember my hurting and my pride tin ever be separated. They will always be continued. But I feel in touch with both states and this makes me feel multiple, it feels exciting."
BARBARA
"In 2014 I was diagnosed with angiosarcoma of the breast, a rare and aggressive cancer. Three surgeries and 2 chemotherapy treatments later on these are the scars I bear. My recent operation was an innovative surgery which involved removal of my sternum and four ribs, which were replaced by surgical cement, musculus from my back and a skin graft. It took me a long fourth dimension to finally embrace my scars. They document my journey and the backbone and forcefulness I did not think I had. Recently I was told the cancer had returned. Surprisingly I feel at peace."
**BILLY **
"At xviii I was diagnosed with Ewings Sarcoma, a rare bone cancer that predominately affects immature people. Earlier my diagnosis I had never heard of Ewings and had no idea how much it would impact my life. Function of the treatment process involved having my femur replaced with titanium which resulted in a scar the length of my thigh. I often felt as if the scar would remain a constant trigger of the times I spent sick to my tum in hospital, but I'm gradually learning to view them every bit symbols of health, recovery and a adventure at a long life. I tin now zoom out and see more than a sick body, but a person even more motivated in life than earlier."
BINTU
"When I was young, I pulled a cup of hot boiling tea off the counter. As a result, it burnt my left shoulder down to my left breast and stomach. My scar has been with me since I was 11 months old - it is all I know, I don't even call back my body without a scar. I have my confident days where I say "Information technology's just a scar". I'g sure everyone has a scar. I've definitely had my bad days, merely only when I meet a new face and they stare at it in cloy. It makes me retrieve OMG is in that location something on my body? And and then I recall "the fire" lol. I wear this scar because it is a part of me. Information technology'due south just a scar."
CATRIN
"After I was severely burned in a charabanc crash in 2013, my life turned upside downwards. I fought for my life, for my physical abilities and my future. Now, I'thousand 23 and have learnt to love the skin I'm in, embracing beingness a 96% burn survivor, and seeing every scar equally a stride in a long journey."
CHLOE
"I started self harming when I was 13 and have struggled with information technology ever since. The issue with self harming is it gets progressively worse and you stop upwards doing more and more than damage to yourself than you lot think is possible when you commencement outset. It truly is an addiction and you get to a indicate where surgeons tell yous that plastic surgery can't fix the appearance of the scars, so the only thing you can exercise is dearest your scars so much that all the negative connections that come up along with cocky damage slowly disappear - along with all the pain attached to the scars. My scars tell my story, and I'm never going to allow anyone else's thoughts or opinions change that. "
DEBORAH
"My body is full of scars that represent my cancer journeying. Each ane is a state of war wound that has meant I take faced cancer and kicked information technology head on! At first I hated my scars, but as time has gone on I've learnt to love them. I propose we carry our scars with pride, knowing they have built us rather than defied usa. 7 months ago my life was turned upside downwardly when I was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer. People say I'm brave to exist going through what I am, but I'chiliad non - I only take no other choice. I'm withal me, I tin can still exist sexy, I can however have fun - cancer doesn't demand to ascertain me."
ELIJAH
"In 1 way or another, my scars are all self-inflicted. The scars from self harm cover the tops of my legs, and hints are on my arm. I am a trans man and started medically transitioning a year and a half ago. Last may, 2016, I had top surgery (double mastectomy) to remove my breasts. These scars are my new chest, the chest I have always wanted. They are my gender, my identity. I can't recollect having any other chest now. I take been liberated. These scars correspond so much of what I have experienced."
HANNAH
"I was told I had breast cancer in April 2016. After various tests and biopsies (from which I have a few tiny scars), I had surgery a calendar week before my 27th birthday. I don't remember much about those kickoff few days, expect I watched a lot of The Sopranos and I was in a lot of pain. The first time I saw my wound I was inconsolable. I had a lot of issues over the adjacent few months - my nurses said I'd broken the record for longest time taken to heal after a lumpectomy. My body rejected the dissolvable stitches, and I had a couple of infections. One day I was out with friends, and my wound opened up on one side, by the fourth dimension I got to A+Eastward blood was pouring out and my shirt was drenched. So the scar is much thicker than the original incision. It's difficult to talk about even so, and I'k definitely not totally liking my scar yet, but I'g getting there. It'south not easy having a scar on a function of your body that'south "Sexy" - I don't accept that relationship with my breasts anymore. This journeying with cancer has taught me a lot, and I capeesh my torso for doing information technology's best and keeping me alive. I know that soon I'll appreciate this scar too, as a reminder of how I had the strength to become through. The scar under my armpit is from the same surgery, where they removed a few lymph nodes to check if the cancer had spread - it hadn't. I've had a lot of issues with move in my arm and tightness in my armpit from it - who knew being able to put your arm to a higher place your caput would exist such a lovely, joyous achievement."
ISABELLA
"In the summer of '15 I was in a house fire. My clothes and style of life up in flames. I spent my summer in a burns unit on Fulham Road. My scars and scar tissue continue to change, but I accept never felt more than beautiful."
MERCY
"My scars are from a fire related to domestic corruption. I got burnt at the age of 29, and information technology'southward been a difficult journey coming to terms with it. The comfort I take from my scars is they make me who I am today. I telephone call them my most precious, and expensive piece of jewellery I own. I accept survived and if having my picture taken, and exposing my scars tin can help anyone else then that'south skilful for me!."
NELL
"My scars were made whilst I was in a coma for 90 days. The scars on my face, neck and groin are at that place considering I was on life back up known every bit ECMO - my lungs had been devastated by a necrotising pneumonia and they had to stop me animate - the ECMO oxygenated my blood and kept me alive for 66 days. The other round scars on my body are from chest drains because both my lungs had collapsed and infection and air was trapped in my breast cavity. The scar on my back is from surgery I had because my chest had filled with and then much blood that it was impacting my eye. All this began when I went on a schoolhouse trip to the Ardeche in French republic. I left on the 26th June with the school and came habitation on the 24th Oct. I was in a French hospital in Montpellier, in Intensive care all that time. They never gave up on me and fought with me. My scars are the map of my survival and I'm very proud of them. They requite me strength and individuality. Information technology's very rare for people to survive this infection - and in actual fact I survived ii, considering after the first pneumonia, I suffered a second infection - hospital born MRSA and went into multiple organ failure. We all fought on. I have a modest scar on my throat where I had a tracheostomy - information technology was strange to take no vox when I woke upwards, but I wasn't afraid - I merely believed."
SAMANTA
"I played with a hand gun at age 14 and it gave me a lifetime in a wheelchair. Just despite what you might recall, I've never constitute a reason to be victimised by my condition. My spiritual and concrete scars made me grow stronger, empowered. I wanted to exist a tennis player, so I became a tennis histrion. I wanted to exist a model, and guess what... I am a model. As a model of diversity, I work in the fashion manufacture representing people that have limitations just are not limited. They love, they fight, they win, they lose. They are real and my story helps them to see how beautiful and meaningful they are. All scars included.
KATIE
"I was diagnosed with Disc Degenerative Disease (DDD) when I was 15years old. This was due to having extreme shooting pains in my right leg that was later diagnosed as Sciatica, which was caused by a large prolapsed disc and spinal stenosis in my lumbar spine pushing on my sciatic nerve, I was also diagnosed with Hypermobility. I'yard one of the youngest in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland to exist diagnosed with this condition, I was merely very unlucky. It gave me excruciating back pain and leg pain. It would feel numb and as if y'all had a "dead leg". This meant I would fall over a lot due to the weakness from the constant pressure on my nerve in my leg. I was unable to bend forrard of elevator my leg whilst lying downwards. My GP didn't believe I had this condition at first as it was so uncommon for my age. I had my commencement procedure when I was 16years old, I had a Microdiscectomy. Followed by a process called a spinal instrumented posterolateral fusion and revisional decompression when I was 22. The spinal fusion involves removing the rest of the disc so take bone from my hip which would be placed in the space the disc was originally in and then rods and screws were fitted to make sure it was all in place. Unfortunately for me I woke upwardly paralysed from the waist down, nonetheless today I have lost all feeling in my big toe and 2nd toe with limited feeling in my human foot and loss of feeling in the forepart of my leg. Learning how to walk again, I looked like bambi in water ice, to this twenty-four hour period I can not describe the feeling. I now rely on crutches and a wheelchair to get about. There is no cure for my weather only footling procedures to try ease my hurting with varied success rates. I like my scar it proves I'm a little warrior, I fought a big battle of learning to walk once more over half-dozen months of rehabilitation and won. I'k proud of my scar and it's much more a scar information technology inverse my life. I had to larn to totally adjust my life, affecting Uni, work, friends, everything. The mad affair is that I'm kind of glad it happened every bit I can honestly say I'k a better person for it. My confidence has grown. I work with the organisation models of diversity and can honestly say I am a model of diversity. It'due south opened upward my eyes to how people deal with disabilities, and even more so with invisible disabilities. If I didn't utilize my Glamsticks (sparkly crutches), no one would know what I was disabled. My scar is hidden, and my inability is hidden. Structurally everything's in place but I now have fractional paralysis downwards my correct leg and can merely experience 40 percent of my pes, and parts of my leg. I take severe nerve impairment, and scar tissue damage. I'm on morphine 24/7 and have since developed Firbomyaglia and CFS/ME, merely I'll go on to fight on I'm a Geordie girl after all. I'grand made of strong stuff. Literally".
MAYA
"The last few months accept been extremely challenging as the condition of my skin as deteriorated massively. From 18 months old when I was diagnosed with epidermolysis bullosa to earlier this year I was able to alive an well-nigh normal life despite my skin, it was easy to hide and easy to manage. But earlier this year information technology started getting rapidly worse and I am now able to do less of the things I in one case could. My conviction and cocky esteem is almost non existent almost of the time. So much of my 24-hour interval is spent managing my skin or existence in pain from information technology. Only at present more than ever I need to remind myself that I am nevertheless the same onetime me. I am still beautiful and this condition that I will be lumbered with for the rest of my life, does not ascertain me every bit a person. Information technology will always be a huge function of my life but i will never let me accept over my life. EB is and then rare that there is so petty awareness for it and in a lot of cases it is life threatening so I'chiliad posting this not only for me but for everyone suffering. Because of the lack of sensation, the funding towards trials and enquiry is so express that I probably volition never access to a cure, equally much as that upsets me, I just hope that futurity children will get access to more treatment and a possible cure. If anyone cares enough to find out more near EB, google search "Debra eb".
Bio
Sophie Mayanne
Sophie Mayanne is a 24 year onetime way and portrait photographer, splitting her fourth dimension between the Cotswolds and London, United kingdom. Her style is unmistakable, favouring raw, striking imagery that is hers and hers alone. Her work has been recognised by both the manner and music industries, and has been specially favoured by up and coming artists & publications who admire the honesty and genuineness in her images.
Source: https://www.vogue.it/fotografia/photostories/2018/04/05/behind-the-scars-by-sophie-mayanne
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