Shortlist
2008 Australian Human Rights Commission Photo Competition
'Dignity and justice for all of us'
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Shortlist for 18 and above
Photographer: Belinda Mason
Title: Forty-two days
Comments:
The community nurse has to come and help me with my bowels, in the past I felt disgraced by this and in my youth, shocked at the though of someone having to care for me this way. Now I don't care anymore, it just doesn't bother me any more. I am not afraid of death as it will effect others more than me. I don't believe in heaven or hell. - John Trinda.
John died 42 days after this image was taken. Awareness of the colour and the richness of the aged in our community enriches our own lives.
