Report: ‘We got naked and covered ourselves in Vaseline’: Katherine Hubbard on photographing her ailing mother

The Guardian — Culture has reported on “Report: ‘We got naked and covered ourselves in Vaseline’: Katherine Hubbard on photographing her ailing mother,” presenting it as the central development in the source material available for this brief.

The available account reports that over five years, Hubbard photographed her mother at home as her memory declined – even persuading her to make nude body prints. The report also notes that What does her mum think of the wrenchingly beautiful images? At the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, artist Katherine Hubbard started to sense something was not right with her mother, Antonette Berger. “It was impossible at the time to say what I was noticing, but something was off.” Berger was living alone in Philadelphia, and as restrictions were lifted, Hubbard went to stay with her. Berger was eventually diagnosed with LATE [limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy], a condition which causes symptoms similar to Alzheimer’s, though the decline in memory and day-to-day functioning is slower. The diagnosis was “a painful, drawn-out and confusing process – then a feeling of so much grief, so much loss”, Hubbard explains on Zoom from New York.

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