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Photo Greater Than 1000: Angelo Merendino at TEDxUSU

On September 1, 2007, I married the girl of my dreams. Five months later Jennifer was diagnosed with breast cancer. Over the next four years we faced constant change as Jennifer's illness grew more serious. During this time, Jennifer allowed me to photograph our day-to-day life. Our hope was that these photographs would offer people a more realistic view of life with cancer. Since Jennifer passed in 2011 these photographs—our love story—have been vital to my accepting Jennifer's death, embracing my own mortality, and finding peace within myself. Angelo Merendino is a photographer whose photo-documentary, The Battle We Didn't Choose -- My Wife's Fight With Breast Cancer, has received worldwide recognition. Intimate, honest, and moving, Angelo's photographs offer viewers a look inside the day-to-day life of a young couple facing breast cancer together. More than a story about loss, this is a story about love and life. Since his late wife Jennifer passed in 2011, Angelo has maintained a blog chronicling life before, during, and after his experience as a caregiver and now, as a 39-year-old widower. Much like his photographs, Angelo's posts are open and raw. His hope is to encourage conversation about topics that are often kept at arm's length and provide a more accurate representation of both life with breast cancer and also the challenges of finding oneself after surviving a traumatic experience. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, Angelo does freelance work for both Corbis News and Getty Images. Angelo's photographs have been exhibited in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Rome, Italy. Online features have appeared on The New Yorker "Photo Booth," The Huffington Post and The Guardian. Printed press includes The New York Times, USA Today and Polka. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)