What do you do when you discover that something drastic has happened to your body, transforming your daily life completely? Camille Renée Devid’s response to being thrust into a twilight zone was to photograph herself. My Other Side is an account, in images, of her physical struggle , revealing aspect of her own body not visible to others. It depicts, in sometimes disturbing explicitness, an intimate and lone battle, an obsession even.
Initially, Camille was mentally and emotionally unable to photograph her own vulnerable nakedness and physical weakness. But in the end she had no choice – for the sake of her own future well-being and to release her artistic creativity. Setting aside her fears, her started taking photos of herself in her darkest moments, those instants when she felt old, ugly, worn out and in pain. No longer the attractive, fearless and successful young woman she had once been. But during this process she came to the realisation that exposing her vulnerability was not an act charged with negativity, but in fact a source of empathy, connection, courage, creativity, even of love. And it allowed her artistic capabilities to blossom.
BOOK
My Other Side, de Camille Renée Devid
Schilt Publishing
48 pages
22 x 24.5 cm
15 €
http://www.schiltpublishing.com/publishing/all-authors/item/name/-85842bea33/
