Bandage, June, 2008 by Melissa R. Kaseman

It's hard to make compassionate photographs about illness, especially the illness of others. Remember Nicholas Nixon's show Patients at Yossi Milo earlier this year? What was he thinking?
So, I was wary when I noticed the titles of Melissa R. Kaseman's photographs which include Bandage, above, and After Treatment. But because I was not struck by what she was photographing until after reading the titles, I found Kaseman's approach comforting. It seems to align more closely with Elinor Carucci's highly personal work in her series, Pain.
Kaseman writes:

Photography has the capability to suspend moments of transition. I am interested in using this to visually describe the moments that are significant to my life experience, using the images as a map of the human experience.