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Nancy Borowick began photographing her parents, Howie and Laurel, after both were diagnosed with stage IV cancer and underwent treatment at the same time. In The Family Imprint: A Daughter’s Portrait of Love and Loss, the photojournalist turns her camera toward the people closest to her, working from the difficult position of being both witness and daughter. Illness defines the circumstances of the project, but not the full measure of its subject.

At its center is a marriage shaped by complexity, mutual care, and a deeply rooted sense of family. Borowick’s account allows affection and humor to remain visible alongside treatment and an uncertain prognosis. Her father died in 2013; her mother followed 364 days later. This compressed chronology gives the work its gravity, while the attention to their partnership keeps it from becoming simply a medical record or an abstract study of grief.

Published by Hatje Cantz in 2017, the 200-page hardcover gives sustained form to an experience that was at once private and documentary. The subtitle is precise: this is a daughter’s portrait, informed by proximity rather than detachment. Borowick’s professional impulse to record events cannot be separated from her place within them, and that tension distinguishes the project from photojournalism conducted by an outside observer.

For collectors of documentary photography and family portraiture, the book merits attention as a concentrated examination of how illness alters—and clarifies—relationships. Its significance lies not in spectacle but in the meeting of public subjects and private bonds: cancer, caregiving, marriage, bereavement, and remembrance are understood through one family’s experience. The result expands the family album into a serious photographic narrative while retaining the emotional knowledge available only to an intimate participant.