Resiliency is the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape. In our opinion, we believe resiliency is the act of accepting your struggles and living your life in a way you can overcome it. We wanted to display this through our community by photographing people who work through their struggles in a resilient way. We wanted to capture what keeps the people motivated to live their lives to the fullest.
As a group we all originally researched mental or physical disabilities in third world countries. These countries include Africa, China, and Syria. With these countries, we researched the struggles people face in the healthcare world. We came to the conclusion that people who have health disabilities are not cared for. This is either because their country couldn't provide the help they need for them or their country neglected these people. In other words, the country and/or people could not afford the health care. Also, people have been shunned by their family and communities. This really shocked us, because in America, there are many resources to get the medical assistance to cope with their disabilities. With this, we wanted to take a look into our own community at the people who are struggling, but still showing this state of resiliency that the people in these third world countries are searching for.
Resiliency is the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape. In our opinion, we believe resiliency is the act of accepting your struggles and living your life in a way you can overcome it. The people in these third world countries struggle with showing resiliency, because they are told that it is wrong to have this illness or not given any hope that they will feel or get better. Resiliency isn't an easy thing to have. Struggles can be very deep for people so we would like to show our appreciation for the strength of those who show resilience.
How we wanted to display this through our community is by photographing people who work through their struggles in a resilient way. We wanted to capture what keeps the people motivated to live their lives to the fullest. This motivation could be family, religion, community, or sports. We wanted to portray the people in a better way, not what stereotypes say they are. Also, we want to make people who have overcome their illness known and wish to make a new stereotype about them and how they live.
Through taking these pictures, we came to hearing such amazing stories. We went out of the comfort of our classroom and contacted people throughout our community. By meeting these people with struggles and seeing them still be resilient, it inspired us. At points it was hard, whether it was trying to find these people or once we found them, how to ask. Finding them was hard, because lots of people tend to hide their differences/what they consider “different”. In the making of our project, we met Sue Zerbe who had touched our hearts. Her son, Daniel, had died in action in Afghanistan. As she was telling our group the life story of Daniel, we had all become touched by his story. Sue suffers from broken heart syndrome and wakes up every morning with heartache. Instead of letting this get to her, Sue speaks at many conferences about her son. With this, she realizes pain can not undo what happened, but sharing his story will inspire and touch others. She visits Daniel’s grave site very often and keeps him close to her heart. By Sue acknowledging what had happened she is improving the community by showing strength. We also met many other amazing people who have showed strength and resiliency through their struggles. Some of these people are Chris Zerbe who has suffered from brain tumors and brain cancer, Robin Shaffer who had suffered from breast cancer, Mary Menges who suffers from breast cancer, Pam Rhoades who had suffered from breast cancer, Kirsten Lake who suffers from misophonia, and others.
With these photos we want to spread that having a struggle shouldn't be shamed upon (like what happens in third world countries) and embrace it and get the help they need. From this we learned how strong our community is. When we did our research, we saw a lot of pain and not a lot of help and support. This connects with our community, because the individuals around us our getting help, but their pain is still present. Also, with this pain they are still doing the most they can, showing their resiliency through it all. Through our project, we learned that resiliency is not hiding the struggle. Resiliency is living and adapting to the struggle in a way that you are strengthening yourself and allowing yourself to live a life you love. Like we mentioned either, resiliency can improve a community. By one being resilient, it can motivate others to live their life in resiliency.
Resiliency is the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape. In our opinion, we believe resiliency is the act of accepting your struggles and living your life in a way you can overcome it. The people in these third world countries struggle with showing resiliency, because they are told that it is wrong to have this illness or not given any hope that they will feel or get better. Resiliency isn't an easy thing to have. Struggles can be very deep for people so we would like to show our appreciation for the strength of those who show resilience.
How we wanted to display this through our community is by photographing people who work through their struggles in a resilient way. We wanted to capture what keeps the people motivated to live their lives to the fullest. This motivation could be family, religion, community, or sports. We wanted to portray the people in a better way, not what stereotypes say they are. Also, we want to make people who have overcome their illness known and wish to make a new stereotype about them and how they live.
Through taking these pictures, we came to hearing such amazing stories. We went out of the comfort of our classroom and contacted people throughout our community. By meeting these people with struggles and seeing them still be resilient, it inspired us. At points it was hard, whether it was trying to find these people or once we found them, how to ask. Finding them was hard, because lots of people tend to hide their differences/what they consider “different”. In the making of our project, we met Sue Zerbe who had touched our hearts. Her son, Daniel, had died in action in Afghanistan. As she was telling our group the life story of Daniel, we had all become touched by his story. Sue suffers from broken heart syndrome and wakes up every morning with heartache. Instead of letting this get to her, Sue speaks at many conferences about her son. With this, she realizes pain can not undo what happened, but sharing his story will inspire and touch others. She visits Daniel’s grave site very often and keeps him close to her heart. By Sue acknowledging what had happened she is improving the community by showing strength. We also met many other amazing people who have showed strength and resiliency through their struggles. Some of these people are Chris Zerbe who has suffered from brain tumors and brain cancer, Robin Shaffer who had suffered from breast cancer, Mary Menges who suffers from breast cancer, Pam Rhoades who had suffered from breast cancer, Kirsten Lake who suffers from misophonia, and others.
With these photos we want to spread that having a struggle shouldn't be shamed upon (like what happens in third world countries) and embrace it and get the help they need. From this we learned how strong our community is. When we did our research, we saw a lot of pain and not a lot of help and support. This connects with our community, because the individuals around us our getting help, but their pain is still present. Also, with this pain they are still doing the most they can, showing their resiliency through it all. Through our project, we learned that resiliency is not hiding the struggle. Resiliency is living and adapting to the struggle in a way that you are strengthening yourself and allowing yourself to live a life you love. Like we mentioned either, resiliency can improve a community. By one being resilient, it can motivate others to live their life in resiliency.