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The Family Imprint: News + Press

  • What an honor it was to have the chance to share my family story with the listeners and readers of NPR, an oulet I so highly respect and regularly frequent. Listen and read the story here
  • On Mother's Day 2017, The Family Imprint was featured on CBS Sunday Morning. I sat down with correspondant and amazingly talented journalist Anthony Mason for an interview and a walk down memory lane. Watch it here
  • Very excited to get to tell my story with the Washington Post this past summer. Read the story here
  • In collaboration with journalist Katherine Dillinger, CNN published the story behind The Family Imprint, sharing many of the amazing lessons we learned throughout the process of losing our parents. Read it here
  • The Family Imprint has its first international newspaper book review in the Wall Street Journal. Whoa! What an honor to be inluded in this photography book gift guide! Read it here.
  • I love my local news, so getting to share my story and invite people to my first public art exhibition at the same time was sort of a dream. The exhibit is up until October 2017 and is hanging along a fence on Washington Street in DUMBO. Check it out if you are in town! Shout out to my old friend Hilary Weissman who made this a reality.Watch it here
  • So excited to learn and announce that The Family Imprint has won its first award! Not bad for my first book ;-) This is for you, Mom and Dad! Read more here
  • When my friend photographer Tess Mayer approached me about being included in Interview Magazine's Faces of 2017 I was very excited, and flattered. I soon learned that I was the sole photographer being featured amongst many incredible artists and creatives in the industry. Read it here
  • Things came full circle when Glamour Magazine included me, and my family story, in the pages of their Powered By Women issue in February of 2017, almost ten years after I first walked through their doors for my first post college internship in their photo department. Thank you Michelle Sulcov, my childhood friend, for making this happen!Read it here
  • While I cannot read German, this spread in the July issue of Donna Magazin is pretty special to me as I had a wonderful interview with the very kind and thoughtful Gunthiuld Kupitz.
  • While in Berlin for the opening of my exhibition A Life In Death (he Cancer Family story) at the new Kreutzberg gallery f³ – freiraum für fotografie, I was also launching The Family Imprint in Europe simultaneously. There was a lot of buzz around the project during this time and one of the interviews I was fortunate enough to participate in was with German National Broadcast!Watch it here
  • I had the pleasure of speaking with journalist Alice Short for a piece she was writing about The Family Imprint. The interview felt more like a call with an old friend, sharing stories and letting the conversation flow organically. Read it here
  • What an amazing surprise to learn that I was the winner of {quote}Assignment: The Story Behind the Photographs,” a photography contest hosted by Visura, a networking platform for photography and media and judged by National Geographic Proof editors. One of the rewards: publication of my family story on their website!Read it here
  • Imagine my surprise when I got a call asking for my mailing address because the former president had heard about my family story and wanted to send his condolences. It was an important reminder that we are all human, and loss is part of the universal human experience.
  • Upon the US launch of The Famly Imprint I had the opportunity to share with the readers of STAT my experience with community support and the important role that it played in dealing with my grief in the loss of my parents. Engaging with strangers around the world via email and messaging has been a two-way converation and together we have felt less alone in our situations. I so grateful for that. Read it here
  • No one said the New York Times would publish a story 4 times, but some how I convinced them to do just that. The story of my family unfolded in four distinct chapters, so that was how it was published. This last and final chapter, and publication, is a personal essay I wrote as I looked back on the whole experience and the process and reasoning behind publishing The Family Imprint book. Read it here
  • Following my father's death, I proposed a short follow up piece to the original New York Times article. So it was no surprise that after my mother died, I would do the same. The New York Times agreed and together we created a photo spread with an story online.Read it here
  • The Cancer Family story continued after the initial New York Times story. That is also the case with the story of life... it continues and things happen. My father died less than two months after the initial piece so I approached the Times and asked if we could share the news with its readers.Read it here
  • No words can explain the experience my family felt the day this story ran on the cover of the New York Times Metropolitan section, and then internationally the following day. We felt love, community, support, kindness from people we knew and from people we didn't. Our story was everyone's story.Read the two different versions here and here
  • Amateur Photographer Magazine in the UK reached out, interested in doing an interview. Before we had a chance to get to the interview, they did a book review- my very first! Read it here
  • The Cancer Family project was exhibited in France in late 2015 and the Swiss newspaper, Le Temps, contacted me about a story around the photographs and my family.Read it here
  • Sharing my story in Poland has been particularly exciting as my family ancestry has roots in the area. My last name, Borowick, actually is a type of Polish mushroom!
  • The story was published in a beautiful spread in Italy's Internazionale Magazine.
  • In a rare interview, my mother had the opportunity to share her story of her life with breast cancer on Huffington Post's Healthy Living platform. Thank you to editor and long time friend Erin Schumaker for making this happen!Read it here
  • Honored to be included in the 57th issue of Huck Magazine in a piece written by Time Magazine's Olivier Laurent about long form storytelling.
  • Over lunch and many coffees, I sat down for an interview with the incomperable and uber talented journalist at Karolien Knols from De Volkskrant, The Netherlands largest newspaper.Read it here
  • When I wasn't samplling the regions many delicious cheeses, I was connecting with Dutch newspapers, like this one, for interviews about The Family Imprint.
  • Following the World Press Photo compeition, where my family project placed 2nd in the Long Term Projects category, Danish newspaper Politiken featured the project on the cover of their Foto section.
  • After meeting with Stern Magazines Editor in Chief Christian Krug and Photo Director Andreas Trampe, I knew this piece would be special. I had no idea, however, that they would give the project sixteen pages, allowing me to share many of the photographs as well as my story through the words of the talented journalist Nora Gantenbrink.Read it here
  • It is truly amazing how the internet shares and spreads stories across the globe. The opportunity to share the Cancer Family story in Japan was quite unique but reminded me that my story was not just an American story; it was a human story.Read it here
  • Zeit Magazin is one of the most popular ouetlets in Germany and it was an honor to see my photographs posted along with a kind mention of The Family Imprint.Read it here
  • Buzzfeed Interview
  • Exhibiting my photographs of my family in France at the Visa Pour L'Image Festival was one of the major highlights of my career, and life. Le Monde generously featured my story in their publication around the festival.
  • Daily Mail UK Spotlight
  • Another feature and highlight in connection with the Visa Pour L'Image festival. What an honor to be presented alongside so many important photographers.
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