Emily
Goddard images shows the people, who have narrowly escaped death. The project
is called “When death leaves his mark”. The series represents a variety of
injuries which left a mark on the skin and is the reminder of story.
Photographer photographs people and their scars, which usually can’t be seen be
everyone as we are thought to hide or cover them, but here participants were
willing to show it all. Goddard says that “they should be seen as “warriors”
who have won a battle rather than victims.”
From frontal lobe lobectomies and aircraft fires to the fresh incision left behind
from a close call with cancer, Goddard’s lens captures the physical impact of
the tragic life changing events.
One of her
subjects is Jamie, whose scars resulted from an aircraft fire and it took him
three years to come to terms with the way he looked and the way people then
looked at him. Still he has found a way of joking that he now knows what it
feels like to be a B-list celebrity.
Photographer’s
other subject Ben hardly ever thinks about his head scars other than when he
goes to the barbers. But when it does come to his mind, he runs his fingers
along the “trench-like” space from the top of his head to his ear – a reminder
of how serious his surgery was.
Mike shows
his scars to friends in the pub, transforming the scars from his injury into
multiple works of body art.
“Ben's
casual drag on a cigarette, Mike's almost superman stance exposing a large
cleft on the stomach and the look of acceptance on Jamie's badly burnt face,
the strength of the subjects in the images challenges the stigma of flaws and
rejects society’s obsession with perfection.” (Alemoru and Dazed, 2016)
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