Oncological Portraits (“Ritratti Oncologici”) is a humanitarian project narrating the experience of cancer survivors through the photography.

Inspired by a personal story and developed with the Association “Noi Sempre Donne” of Como (based in Italy), Oncological Portraits aims to make people aware of the feelings associated with this disease, including failure, anger, depression but also joy to live and force to survive.

As a humanitarian project, Oncological Portraits is a non-profit initiative open to everyone feeling a sense of empathy for this condition that may affect any individual in her/is life.

This project is dedicated to non-profit efforts, and we welcome volunteer donations to help advance cancer research.

Biography – Elena Salvaterra:

Elena Salvaterra (Ph.D) is an independent researcher in the field of Ethics of Science who collaborates with non-profit international organizations such as the NCIS-National Coalition of Independent Scholars and the ISOPROG-Somatolink EPFP Research Network. Author of a trilogy dedicated to the ethical, legal and social issues of the use of stem cells for clinical and research aims, she also wrote several papers in this field and spoke at a number of conferences worldwide.

She combines the passion for the social research with that for humanitarian photography. Member of the ICP-International Center of Photography, based in NYC (USA), she exposed in Italy at international and national events.