Katie, Ireland

Resilience, determination, and the refusal to quit — to keep fighting for the day after the storm — have brought me to this point. One more day. One last push. Let’s keep moving forward.

Dermot, Ireland

Camino

“By March 2010, I had become heavy, something I only fully realised by chance. My Nephew and his Girlfriend came to visit me. I took photographs of them, and they took photographs of me. A few days after they left, I put the memory card into the computer. They looked great, but then I saw a fat man with my face looking at me from the computer screen. Something needed to be done and rapidly.”