Light Against Cancer

Just about everyone of us has been effected by cancer in some way, if the disease has never crept into your own or a loved ones life count yourself as very blessed.

Light painting photographer David Schlaich’s story is not any different from most everyone else that has battled one form of cancer or another with one exception, it took FIVE years after his first symptoms began to show for his diagnosis. It took five years of David being sick before he happened to see a different doctor because his regular doctor was out one of the days he was sick enough to end up in the doctors office. This “different” doctor decided to take an x-ray of Davids chest which is when they found his first tumor and David was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. David says “One of the reasons I talk about this with the photos I post in Flickr is to get people to realize the importance of seeing different doctors if the one you have is not working for you. I wish I knew that earlier.” That astounding fact is just one of the reasons he is so passionate cancer awareness.

David is still fighting and shinning light onto this dark subject with his own work, and with the project he founded LIGHTAGAINSTCANCER.COM he is fighting for everyone. With Light Against Cancer light painters from around the world can donate their work, then those donated light paintings will eventually be published in a book that David hopes will “not only raise money but also bring about a desire for other to express themselves and bring about a discussion that will increase cancer awareness and motivate others to help people with cancer.”

Below are a few of David’s light paintings (NOTE the use of numerous prescription pill bottles used in his work, these are his own collection from the medications he has taken), check out more about this great light painting project on Flickr HERE and the Website HERE, and most importantly please spread this project so that it can get the support it deserves!