'A Good Death' by Jason Warick
Jason Warick; CBC News
A Good Death is a profile of Saskatoon artist Jeanette Lodoen before, during, and after her death by medical assistance in dying. She granted CBC News unrestricted access to herself and her family in her final days because she wanted to share what an assisted death is like with families, health professionals, and lawmakers.
'Ana' photographs by Jessica Alva Piedra
Jessica Alva Piedra
Between 2019 and 2020, the Peruvian photographer Jessica Alva Piedra collaborated with the psychologist Ana Estrada to portray Estrada’s life with polymyositis and in palliative care. The resulting photos, a testimony to Estrada’s agency to represent her own body while advocating for the right to die, appeared in Estrada’s blog, in a photobook, and in media outlets around the world.
'The Leave-Taking' by Ruth Steinberg
Ruth Steinberg
Photo-based artist Ruth Steinberg had been taking pictures of her neighbour and friend, Alma Norman, for years when the latter decided to have a medically assisted death. The intimate photographs from the 5 months leading up to Norman’s death in November 2020 were made public in The Leave-Taking, an exhibit in Karsh-Masson Gallery in Ottawa’s City Hall, in 2023.