Beauty of mastectomy tattoos revealed in powerful photo project
CNNCNN — In the portrait series “Reclaim” women in diffuse pink lighting reveal delicately tattooed designs inked across their chests, unfurling over scar tissue in explosions of color or in black and gray. The series, a collaboration between British photographer Kate Peters and art director Gem Fletcher, which began in 2018, illustrates the beauty of mastectomy tattoos, a practice that offers breast cancer survivors the opportunity to transform their skin after they’ve healed from their surgeries. “Hearing the women’s stories when we were photographing them was a very humbling experience, and seeing how the tattoos had changed their perception of their own bodies,” Peters said. “I’m more body confident than I have been my entire life.” After the photos from “Reclaim” were published by The Guardian newspaper, Peters said she was inundated with emails from people who had seen the work and didn’t know mastectomy tattoos were possible – including women who had undergone surgery and were interested in it for themselves.
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