LensCulture
LensCulture is a global platform for contemporary photography, known for its compelling photo essays, artist interviews, and influential photography awards. In a recent LensCulture article, writer Sophie Wright offers a thoughtful review of Anna and Jordan Rathkopf’s book, HER2, beautifully highlighting how the project captures the resilience and complexity of living with cancer. Wright’s review brings out the sensitivity and depth in HER2’s imagery, framing it as more than documentation but as an emotional journey shared between the diagnosed, the caregiver, and their child.
You can explore the full review on LensCulture here.
“In this brave account of a family navigating breast cancer, Anna and Jordan Rathkopf turn the camera on each other. Capturing resilience, vulnerability and the tenderness of caregiving, the book offers an honest look at how chronic illness impacts all areas of life.”
“Photography can be a medium of documentary and poetry, a container for contradictions, a connector between multiple perspectives, a composer of self, a process of repair. In HER2: The Diagnosed, The Caregiver and Their Son, these many different facets come into play, the camera becoming a companion and witness in the complex web of the family’s intersecting experiences. In the conflicting demands to be strong for those around you, choosing this kind of vulnerability and transparency is powerful.”
“HER2: The Diagnosed, The Caregiver and Their Son is a deeply personal and intimate story, in sharing it the Rathkopfs have achieved something quite mammoth: providing companionship to those climbing the same mountain.”
