Remember Me

Hello. everyone~!

On today's post, I would like to introduce Preston Gannaway, who has been a photojournalist for the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire since 2003. She is the winner of the Pulitzer Prizes.

Actually, I happened to know that there's a lot of different categories for the Pulitzer Prizes when I read the Japanese magazine that basically focuses on articles from foreign newspapers and magazines, whose name is "COURRiER Japon". In the magazine, the editor in chief talked about the Pulitzer Prizes and felt a bit sad because the Japanese media just covered the category of "Breaking News Photography". Yes, it literally is really shocking and it has to be covered by the Japanese media because the person in the photo, who had been killed when he visited Myanmar to get a story about the demonstration on streets there. But still, there's a lot of great photographs and articles which are worth paying attention to, and reading.

One of them ,which also was introduced on the magazine, is from the category of "Feature Photography" and the work is called "Remember Me". It's a story about a woman who is close to death due to a terminal illness. After she realized it, she decided to live the rest of her life in a way that she wanted it to be. She wanted to be surrounded by her family when her time finally came, and the photographs not only captured the moments of her life, but also grasped the feelings that she and her family had at the time. Not only she She, but also her family, struggled. as a mother, was afraid that her youngest son would not remember her if she's gone. And her sons struggled to face with the fact that their mom would go and never see them again.

It is really sad. But at the same time, it made me realize that, as much as I've thought of how I live, it's really crucial and meaningful to think about how I would like to die. It sounds a bit negative and sad, but there might not be a lot of differences between living and dying. Even if it's wrong, I think there's definitely a strong connection between how we live and how we die.

Hmmm... it's a bit philosophical!

All right, that's all for today!
See you soon. ^^