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I’m Doing Fine Paraphrasing on Robert Capa's words "If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough", I can say: "If your Photography hurts, you're very close". My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, had surgery and chemotherapy. Whenever people asked me how I felt my answer was: "I feel fine". My wife gave the same answer when she was asked the same question. So it was inevitable that a photographic series of of my reflections of that period will bare that name. It is a meaningless answer to a meaningless question in a very intensive and acute time. The photos in this series expose intimate small moments and pieces of life from a long and tedious period. Illness is made out of small moments and pieces like these, and not of grand heroic peeks. It is almost unbearable to stand by your love when she's in pain and danger without any real way to help. Photographing these moments from within made it a little more bearable and helped me feel that I'm part of the same world. The camera became an instrument of communication and bonding, a membrane of diffusion of our souls.