Julie W. McCarthy  
PHOTOGRAPH SERIES
City of Light
She Had to Go
Circus Flora
Saints & Sinners
The Hair Project
Stockbridge Women
A Tangled Tale
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The series, A Tangled Tale, is about Alzheimer’s disease.

Towards the end of her life, my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
Our ability to communicate with each other changed on a daily basis.
Some days I was able to reach through the tangles of the disease to find her, confused and muddled but still there. Other days, I found a younger woman who was, once again, a mother holding her baby or sometimes I found her still a nurse in a tidy white uniform.

Finally, at the end, all I could locate was a shadow.
 

 
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