The article describes the photographs depicting the human bodies experiencing pain, illness, wounds, and abnormalities. The author states that she is interested in photography's function in recording, assembling, and categorizing objective reality. Medicine is said to mediate in the relationship between the objective reality of the physical body and the subjective experience of the emotional and psychological body. The photograph "Cures" was inspired by the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) crisis while "Disease" makes the viewer look beneath the surface or the skin and into the individual and collective psyche.