What Hurting Looks Like: Photographer Translates Pain Into Visceral Still Lifes
In How I Hurt, a series of photos from Justin J Wee, chronic pain is depicted through everyday objects. Wee created the series to help spark talk about chronic pain and elicit empathy for sufferers.
When someone tells us they are in love, our own memories of love come to mind. These impressions can allow us to understand, to a certain extent, that feeling. We've felt it, in some way or another.
But what happens when someone is in physical pain? Can we understand and truly feel pain? Pain is such an intensely personal pain. And talking about pain can also be taboo — a perceived weakness that can be accompanied by public and private shame.
