I post this picture because it contains a story about a life ending to soon, about coincidence about never knowing where things will end (up). A year ago, Lise Bank Hournung and I worked on the project ‘About Dying’. We talked to different cases who were all seriously ill, we talked about life and what becomes important in life, when you know your path is short.
One of the people we meet was Mette Kemp. Small areas in her heart and lounges had developed cancer. The was so full of life when we meet her, she was ready to fight and not at all ready to say goodbye to her family. We believed her, anybody would looking in to her eyes. She was scared yes, but she was so bright and strong. She died in december 2012.
In the project the photos from the morgue (see ‘About Dying’ in this feed) were published in Dagbladet Information in August 2012. Only the pictures from the morgue, never the story about Mette Kemp.
Some days ago Sigrid from Information called me again asking about a picture. The one I did of Mette Kemp in her garden. Every week Dagbladet Information brings an extended obituary about a person. In contrats to the other dailys in Denmark, that make long obituaries about famous people, Information writes about all regular non-famous you and me-people. I love this idea! And I was happy to be able to contribute.
I remembered sitter in her little house with Lise, and the two of us talking about her sickness and how we both believed she would live for a long time. And how strange it felt, that the picture I took that day, ended up in being a picture for an obituary. In the same paper that brought the other part of the project, without any relation at all.