Portraiture & storytelling

Calling out for residents of the Lithgow and surrounds to share your medical story with me and let me capture your image, to help raise awareness about the gaps in the regional and rural healthcare system

Photography & portraiture taken as a team effort by Michelle Jonkers-Daley & Liam Daley

Married couple behind the camera, working together to capture your image which can be presented in the way of a photograph or a drawing.

Liam is the mastermind behind Photography and is either behind the camera or helping with the editing and camera settings.

Michelle is either behind the camera, working with the editing, or transforming the portrait from Photography to charcoal and pencil drawings.

We are hoping to have the exhibition ready to go in the next couple of months, so please don't hesitate to reach out if you want to be a part of it.

The stories shared can be related to....

Experiences with hospital care

This can be related to immediate impacts such as delays in emergency response, treatment, transportation or a lack of resources in our hospitals such as theatre or radiology. This could also be as broad as issues with racism, sexism or experiences with discrimination impacting the experiences of health treatment.

Personal impacts

This might be issues such as permanent impairment, loss of a loved one or a lack of respite services leading to family relationship breakdowns , or even long-term impacts of medical traumas preventing someone engaging in health and welfare services

The aftermath

This might be related to delays in aftercare services such as NDIS funding, knockbacks, delays in other assessments or limitations to ongoing support services. This might also include barriers to receiving ongoing treatments such as financial barriers to medications or surgeries.