Good morning Mr. Hodgkin

© Massimo Capocci - Image from the Good morning Mr. Hodgkin photography project © Massimo Capocci - Image from the Good morning Mr. Hodgkin photography project © Massimo Capocci - Image from the Good morning Mr. Hodgkin photography project View all images ↓
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  • Dates
    2015 - 2015
  • Author
  • Topics Daily Life, Social Issues, Documentary
  • Location Italy
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"Good morning Mr. Hodgkin" is the story of a person who, one morning, without warning, decided to knock on the door of my home; I say "home" because when a cancer affects one inevitably affects all the people around... it affects the family as a whole.

When two years ago I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, I decided to tell the experience I was going to live. I tried to be as delicate as possible focusing mainly on my psychological and emotional state. Straightaway I tried to describe this situation in a simple and intimate way, through daily life, gestures, people and places that I would find important in the story. All those emotion-triggering events within myself was an indispensable tassel to express the moment I was living.

One of the things I expected most to emerge was my interaction with time. While continuing to live in the most normal way possible, I was experiencing a sort of atemporal manifestation where moments of waiting and hope constantly followed one another.

The reportage was made with a smartphone and the small format “polaroid” has been chosen to recreate an album of memories/diary with the purpose to move the viewer to approach the picture closer as to bring out the intimacy that belongs both the diary concept and the subject matter.

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Waiting room - oncohemathology ward. Every day dozens and dozens of people, with various moods, await the beginning of their therapy, the outcome of the tests or a check-up visit. “Waiting”, both mental and physical, is one of the protagonists in all tumor stories.

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Walking in the woods around my house I often stopped looking at the trees moving in the wind: I thought of their situation, their continuous struggle against the weather ...

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Oncohematology ward - self-portrait. Lying on the bed waiting for chemotherapy I often looked out my room’s window. Sometimes I was distracted by what happened outside, other times I spaced out among thousand thoughts hopeful for the best.

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At home - Portrait of my cat. All family members, including pets, have had a basic therapeutic role. Affection and presence are an essential element.

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Oncohematology ward - Bags containing chemotherapeutic drugs. During the therapy, which lasted a few hours, I watched drops falling and almost hypnotized I closed my eyes and relaxed me.

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Courtyard of the house - plant in the sun. I often sat by the steps of my house and looked at the sun-lit plants, this simple situation relaxed me ... I was almost absent.

© Massimo Capocci - Nurse involved in the administration of chemotherapies. Therapy lasted about 2-3 hours and was repeated every 15 days.
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Nurse involved in the administration of chemotherapies. Therapy lasted about 2-3 hours and was repeated every 15 days.

© Massimo Capocci - My dog and the long walks with him regenerated me. I felt serene and every kind of worry disappeared.
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My dog and the long walks with him regenerated me. I felt serene and every kind of worry disappeared.

© Massimo Capocci - Histological examination scar. This mark represents the origin of my physical and emotional path linked to Mr. Hodgkin.
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Histological examination scar. This mark represents the origin of my physical and emotional path linked to Mr. Hodgkin.

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My father's portrait. The tumor does not concern only the person who becomes ill, it is a disease affecting the whole family, it affects the life of everyone.