About
Our Mission
Exposed artfully amplifies empowered outcomes and challenges traditional assumptions about women and breast cancer.
There is no singular experience with breast cancer, no way to generalize the shifting identities, feelings, and lived experiences of every woman who is diagnosed. But research tells us that body image, intimate relationships, and quality of life suffer during and after cancer treatment, and while that can be true, it is a limiting conclusion in ways that are worth examining.
This project illuminates powerful survivor experiences of feeling embodied, empowered, happy, and whole following their experience with breast cancer.
Our Team
This project manifested when Brie Katz, the project’s creative director, met Lila Streicher, a Boise-based film maker and photographer, amidst Brie’s treatment for stage 3 breast cancer. Yearning to capture images of strong women through the lens of vulnerability and strength, Lila learned of Brie’s research into body image, quality of life, mastectomies, the grim statistics, and women whose defied those stats. The two connected quickly and realized a shared mission to elevate women who have faced breast cancer an emerged with unexpected, inspiring, empowering perspectives to share.