Diabetes Made Visible is a really fabulous project. Hosted on flickr, it's a repository of photos showing how diabetes affects daily life. The photos are a mix of portraits, graphs and charts, artwork, food and technology shots. It's incredibly evocative to see these images and to read the commentary that accompanies them.
Seeing a tiny hand with blood testing pinpricks, or a bag full of supplies that someone can't leave the house without really enforces the effects this disease has on every day life. Or simply someone sharing a new food they've found they can eat, or those horrible/great numbers.
I feel a great connection to these images too. That person uses the same meter as me! She knows what it's like to prick your finger too! I'm not the only one who misses cookies or distrusts sugar alcohol.
It's also reassuring. Hey. This person has a smile while they test. That person has transformed a wasteland of needles or lancets into beautiful art. Despite it all, Life is good.
My favorite is this piece. What's yours?
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