Breathe Photography Exhibition Australia

Breathing is the basis of life.
It is a tragic fact that thousands of men & women die each year from diseases caused by inhaling asbestos fibres

In a cruel irony, the very strength and resilience of the asbestos fibre, once hailed as a “wonder fibre”, is the undoing of many who breathe it in. Once it has embedded in a person’s lung, the tiny fibre may give rise to cancers and lung disease which eventually rob the patient of the very capacity to draw breath.

Many more healthy, breathing men & women will fall victim to fibres that already lodge like tiny time bombs in their lungs. These are the workers, renovators and random exposed who will become disease statistics as death rates peak in about 2025.

Asbestos leaves a cruel legacy. In the dread that it engenders, in the pain and suffering it brings to so many families, in arrested dreams, in the sheer contemplation of what may lie ahead, it knocks us breathless.

One particularly poignant legacy is the widow. She faces her loss daily. How does she cope? What strengths does she draw from her husband’s memory? What encapsulates her resolve to live a meaningful and purposeful life?

This exhibition, simply titled Breathe, is dedicated to those widows united by that loss, and to their men who have gone.

Theirs is a story about strength, resilience and the will to breathe.

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