Jean Karotkin
“I was fifty years old when I first exhibited a self-portrait. The image was part of a black and white portrait series of breast cancer survivors inspired by my own battle with the disease and the resulting mastectomy.
My intent was to explore the counterintuitive nature of female beauty and the ways it can be enhanced by angry scars and indomitable courage.
Though the series, which I published as a monograph titled Body & Soul, featuring a self-portrait with my mother, also a breast cancer survivor, it would take another two decades and a global
