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> Note from Ilena:Please see Anne's beautiful picture on this site.

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> URL: http://www.news-bulletin.com/lavida/38362-02-25-04.html

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> Wednesday, February 25, 2004

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> Photographer Anne Stansell inspires with art based on life and history

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> Clara News-Bulletin Staff Writer; cgarcia@...

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> Los Lunas Capturing a moment in time that can never again be experienced

has

> become an art form for Anne Stansell.

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> For the past 10 years, Stansell, a Los Lunas photographer, has been

looking

> through her viewfinder and snapping pictures of everything life entails.

Her

> love of photography began as her love for life inundated her entire

> existence.

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> " About 15 years ago, I was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a

> mastectomy, " she said. " Through all of this, I was wanting to see what I

was

> going to look like, but I didn't see any pictures of anyone who had a

> mastectomy. "

> It wasn't until she saw a photo taken by famed photographer Matuschka that

> Stansell knew exactly what she wanted to do. The photo was of a woman

who'd

> had mastectomy, wearing a cut-away-dress on the front cover of New York

> Times magazine.

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> " I had a hard time looking at it at first, " Stansell said. " I was

interested

> in it and eventually discovered that a lot of women were also interested. "

> As part of her recovery from breast cancer, the doctors convinced Stansell

> that she needed breast implants. " They made me feel that it was all part

of

> the recovery and not an option, " she said.

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> But after the implants were in place, Stansell began feeling ill - not

from

> the cancer but from the implants, she said. After Stansell had the

implants

> removed, she found a support group in Albuquerque of women who were also

> recovering from the ill effects of breast implants.

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> As members of the group started talking and getting to know each other,

> Stansell said, she began taking pictures of them. She said it was part of

a

> healing process and if she could help prevent one woman from going through

> this, either the breast cancer or the implants, her work would have done a

> lot of good.

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> " Right about that time, I had this thing that I always wanted to go to

> college, " she said. " So, when I was recovering from the cancer, I thought

> 'if I'm going to survive this, then I'm going to go to college. '

> " The first class I went to, I cried through the whole thing, " Stansell

said.

> " But as I went along, I found it was a good way to express my way through

> the recovery. "

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> Stansell took about five or six photography courses at the University of

New

> Mexico-Valencia Campus from instructor B.G. Burr. She said Burr encouraged

> her to continue her craft when he saw her project about breast cancer

> survivors and the devastating effect breast implants can have on women.

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> " He told me to drop the other projects and concentrate on that issue

only, "

> she said. " 'The nation needs to know this,' he said. B.G. Burr inspired me

> to go on. From there, the project just took off. "

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> Stansell has had requests for her photographs from San Diego to New York

> City and Washington, D.C., and even Europe. She was also asked to

> participate in a breast-cancer recovery project in London with Nick Knight

> (a Vogue photographer) and in New York with Helen Mark for Self

> magazine.

> About four or five years ago, LoPopolo and came to

> Stansell, looking for a photographer for the New Mexican Horse Project.

She

> said the offer was a chance-in-a-lifetime assignment.

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> " I love to be able to document something that really touches history, " she

> said. " They're real direct descendants from the horses that settled the

> West.

> " Photography, as an art form and also a historical document, has always

> intrigued me, " she said. " I find it both interesting and challenging. So

> when and came to me looking for a staff photographer, I got

> excited. I was hooked. It was my chance to record history - a living,

> breathing link to the past. "

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> For the past month, Stansell has been showing her work at 's Madrid

> Gallery in Madrid. She has also exhibited her photography in local

> businesses and at the Harvey House in Belen.

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> For more info on the risks of breast implants, please visit:

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> www.BreastImplantAwareness.org O