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Helen Rimell Awarded 2023 Bob & Diane Fund Grant
8 January 2024
The Bob & Diane Fund has announced photographer Helen Rimell as the 2023 grantee for her photography project No Longer Her(e).
This yearly photography grant is to support visual storytelling about Alzheimer's and dementia.
In an essay accompanying the project's images, Chip Somodevilla, senior photographer for Getty Images News, wrote:
Helen's images of her mother and family made an immediate impact on us when looking at this year's submissions for the Bob and Diane Fund grant. The images were intense and unblinking in their intimacy, all on top of their strong use of color and composition. While her mother appears alone in beautiful portraits and serene settings, Helen has focused on her mother's eyes, revealing the heartbreaking disconnection and disorientation that lives just behind the sad stare. Every one should spend time with these photographs and appreciate what Helen and her family have done: preparing us all for the possibilities that Alzheimer's and dementia present.
Rimell writes about the subject as well on that page, concluding:
Making this work whilst being her primary caregiver, which is physically, mentally and emotionally exhausting; as well as trying to process my own grief in losing the person I love with all my heart. This has been overwhelming and unbelievably challenging, which I believe comes through in the images and is a huge part of not only this work, but also the experience of caring for someone with dementia.
We're pleased to be able to present a selection of images from No Longer Her(e). The project, complete with descriptive captions, can be seen on the Bob & Diane Fund Grant page.
