Breast Cancer

The Woman in the Breast Cancer Photo Responds to Times Readers

By MARGARET SULLIVAN

Over the weekend, I heard from a New York Times picture editor, Soo-Jeong Kang, who was involved in the publication of a photograph that generated a great deal of discussion when it appeared on The Times’s front page (PDF) last Wednesday. Ms. Kang assigned the photo shoot that resulted in that much-discussed image of an Israeli woman’s upper torso, including incision scars, a portion of her areola and her Star of David tattoo. It did not show her face.... Get the rest of the story