Prize-winning photographer Maija Tammi looks for new ways to depict sickness in photographic art
(WorldNews Finland)

Doctoral thesis `Sick Photography. Representations of Sickness in Art Photography` is examined 12th December. `I am interested in subjects and areas where looking at a photograph approaches its limits. Depicting sickness in art involves ethical questions about what kinds of pictures may or may not be shown. The disgust or revulsion that may be sparked by the pictures raise the question about why some pictures are so difficult to look at. Both...