366 Days of Me and M.E.
Daily self portraits through one year of chronic illness
By Rachel Groves rachelgroves
Category: Arts & Photography
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366 Days of Me and M.E. shows daily photographic self portraits by artist Rachel Groves through one year of chronic illness from
4 May 2007 - 3 May 2008.
Rachel has the chronic debilitating condition of M.E. (also called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome CFS and CFIDS).
Rachel's aim with this year long daily project was to approach the same subject, day in day out and to find creative ways to explore it.
As well as an atistic project these photographs are often a brutally honest portrayal of Rachel's life with ME.
Diagnosed with ME just five months before the first photograph this book also documents her coming to terms this chronic illness. With every daily self portrait we also see an intoxicating passion for photography evolve.
Square 7x7 inches (18x18 cm) 200 pages
Published: July 1, 2008
