Connecticut-based photographer Susan Falzone’s Grace is a series she has been working on for the past four and a half years on the daily life of her …
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4 Photographers Documenting Life with Alzheimer’s and Dementia
"When you are in it, you feel so alone, but we are connected with our stories." - Susan Falzone Starting with Falzone's collaboration with her Aunt Grace, for whom she was a caregiver, we share four stories capturing different aspects of life with dementia. Virgil DiBiase, whose father has dementia, visualizes his patients' experiences. Tony Luciani creates playful tableaux with his mother, full of vitality and whimsy. Peter Granser makes mysterious, intimate portraits defined by soft colors.
In the 1980s when Virgil DiBiase was in medical school studying neurology, there were 500,000 people with dementia in this country. In just four …
In 2014, Canadian Italian artist Tony Luciani’s mother, then ninety-one years old, was no longer able to look after herself. As a painter working …
Photography is a question of voice, so what to do if the subjects of one’s project have lost their own? German photographer Peter Granser’s work on …
