Posted 31 Mar 18
By Design Indaba
Duration: 00:08:46
Art & Photography • Creative Economy • Design Activism
Creative Work / Next Generation
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There are over 44 million people living with Alzheimers disease and it is also a fatal disease that cannot be cured.
Sarah Wisniewska, a Communication Design graduate from the School of Form in Poland, used her skills as a photographer to try and raise awareness. She did this through a book called Dissolving Memory.
With the book, which was inspired by her family friend Monique (who was diagnosed with Dementia) to help transfer some of the emotions people with this disease experience like anger and frustration. She wanted to showcase the disease in a way that could be understandable to a reader.