ABOUT

Survivors: Life Unfiltered -
is a joint creative project between Richard Booth, award winning photographer and Director, and Maddy Warren aka “Queen of Dialysis”, copywriter. We devised the project using art and storytelling as a way to portray the strength, vulnerability and resilience of those who are affected by Chronic Kidney Disease, shining a light on some of the challenges they face.
Our aim is to share thought provoking, inspiring human stories that offer a different perspective on the world, as well as to provide important education about kidney health. By displaying our images as diptychs, we are seeking to contrast people’s outward facing daily lives and passions, against the less visible but significant time commitment and reality of living with their condition.
We photographed and filmed interviews with over 30 people and families; our “Survivors” range from two to 78 years old and come from all walks of life. Their stories are all unique, covering topics as diverse as facing mortality, mental health, body image, gratitude, survivor’s guilt, silver linings, reconciling with a “new” normal and finding hope whilst living with a life limiting condition.

Originally we had organised a national exhibition tour starting in London in April but due to the Covid-19 pandemic we were faced with either postponing or reimagining our plans. We chose the latter and with our framed images safely in storage for now, we came up with a virtual exhibition allowing people to “walk” through the artwork and engage with the individual stories as they move around.