HER2: Alone Together — How Cancer Impacts a Family Featured At Photoville Festival

When we began turning the camera on ourselves, we weren’t thinking about a book, media features, an exhibition, or a nonprofit. We were just trying to get through the greatest challenge we ever faced as a family while staying connected—to ourselves, to each other, and to our son—as everything around us shifted through an unexpected cancer diagnosis at 37.

Nearly a decade later, HER2: Alone Together opens June 7 at Photoville Festival in New York City, and with it, we officially launch the Patient Caregiver Artist Coalition (PCAC)—a platform for artists with lived experience to share nuanced stories about illness, caregiving, and survival. This project is our founding story. It’s what started it all. A deeply personal collaboration between the diagnosed and the caregiver, HER2 uses photography and journal entries to show what illness looks like behind closed doors—especially in the quiet moments most people don’t get to see.

The work has recently been featured in The Washington Post, STAT, and on several major platforms for visual storytelling, helping spark conversations about fertility loss, the emotional cost of survivorship, and the weight of silence in families navigating care.