Attention, New Yorkers

I received this from the photographer David Jay. If you're in New York this week I urge you to go along. The Scar Project is a very moving and thoughtful body of work.

Reminder: Four days left-The SCAR Project Opening Night Gala, October 28th. Exhibition runs through November 6th, 2011. Please join us in celebrating this extraordinary project. Tickets are available online at EventBrite for our Opening Night Gala or a Gallery Walk with photographer David Jay, on October 30th and November 5th. General admission tickets are also available for the entire 10 days and evenings of the exhibition. We look forward to seeing you at 201 Mulberry St. NY, NY.

For more information on The SCAR Project, please visit our website at www.thescarproject.org or our Facebook page.

Attention New Yorkers

                                                                   photograph by David Jay

A while ago I wrote about the SCAR Project by David Jay. This is a beautiful and challenging series of photographs of young women who have had surgery for breast cancer.

You can see the images on the SCAR Project website. But, if you live in New York, you now have a chance to see the photographic prints. The premiere exhibition of the SCAR Project is showing at OpenHouse Gallery, 201 Mulberry Street, from the 14^th – 17^th of October. If you’re lucky there might still be one or two tickets left to the gala opening on Thursday night, in support of Lance Armstrong’s LIVESTRONG Foundation.

Finding Beauty

                                          photograph by David Jay

In this blog I have written a lot about wigs and dresses, lipstick and nail varnish, bras and bikinis. I believe that these seemingly mundane things are important tools that have helped me to maintain a sense of my own identity.

But becoming Chemo Chic is not a matter of desperately trying to stay the same as we were before. Following a diagnosis of breast cancer many women must face searching questions: “How can I possibly look beautiful without my hair? How can I feel feminine without my breasts? How do I find a way to step into my new reality?”

We need to redefine what beauty is.

The SCAR project shines a light on women who have suffered the ravages of breast cancer. It is the light of courage in the face of a dreadful unknown. In a series of compassionate yet unflinchingly raw images photographer David Jay examines women’s vulnerability, their pride, their sadness and their dignity. And by showing these women’s true selves he reveals their essential beauty.