Survivor Portrait Gallery

The Survivor Portrait Gallery, a collaboration between Mark Jason Photography and Komen Greater NYC, is a new initiative to highlight and honor breast cancer Survivors.

This website feature will combine Mark’s photos of Survivors with their words and stories. The ongoing project will result in large collection of Survivor pictures and narratives.

Featured survivors will be chosen by a Komen Greater NYC panel from application submissions.

Mark Jason and Komen Greater NYC

Mark Jason

Mark Jason has been involved with Komen Greater NYC since 2005, when a staff member asked his wife to join the Annual Awards Luncheon Committee. Lynn Redgrave spoke at the event, movingly discussing her experience with breast cancer, as well as how she and her daughter documented every step of Lynn’s journey in words and photographs. Mark was touched, moved and inspired. He became more involved in the organization and has been a part of the Komen Greater NYC family every since.

For the past four years, Mark has photographed many of our events, including the Annual Awards Luncheon and the Komen New York City Race for the Cure®. (You can see his work as part of Race and Luncheon slideshows on our website.)

He looks forward to touching the lives of Survivors with his art and sharing a special moment with them that will be captured for posterity. Passionate about his work, Mark will make his subjects feel very comfortable wherever and however they are being photographed.

His goal is to capture the essence of the Survivors he photographs, showing who they truly are or who they want to be. He is happy to photograph those chosen in their homes, with their families and friends, with pets. However they envision themselves, he will help make the vision a reality.

How to Apply

Download the application form , fill it out and return it to Vern Calhoun, Director of Communications at vcalhoun@komennyc.org. Please include a recent picture of yourself (any kind of snapshot will do).

Those chosen will be contacted by Mark to make arrangements to take the portraits at a mutually convenient time. The Survivors will receive a digital copy of their portrait as a gift from Mark.

Visit the Survivor Portrait Gallery