Mutual Vulnerability
By Rachel Cox

Don’t Smile, Smile, 2012 | All images shot with medium format color film and printed as archival inkjet prints, by Rachel Cox.
Artist: Rachel Cox
Project: Shiny Ghost
Description: In this series Rachel Cox photographs her grandmother over the last few years of her life as she struggled with a degenerative brain disease. Through photography, Cox was able to confront the unsettling emotions sewn into their relationship, and finally came to understand how mutual vulnerability and trust could restore their connection.



















