A Photographer Documents His Wife’s Losing Battle With Cancer

Two years ago this week, Angelo Merendino’s wife Jennifer died, at age 40, of breast cancer. Merendino, a photographer, documented her journey with the disease, through to the last days of her life, with his camera—not because he had explicit goals about art, or even because he wanted to spark conversation. He was in New York, taking care of his wife; their family was in Ohio. Merendino and his wife wanted them to better understand what was really going on. “We had no intention of showing them to anyone else,” he said.