Venezuelan photographer Ana Maria Arevalo Gosen met her husband, Philipp, in 2009 when he was spending a year as a German exchange student in Venezuela. Shortly after that, she moved to France. But they kept up their relationship over long distance for the next four years until she moved to Hamburg to live with him. One year later, in 2015, they were married.
As with so many things in life, happiness is sometimes coupled with pain.
One year after Ana and Philipp were married, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer. But he was able to have the tumor causing it removed through surgery, and life seemed to return to normal for a while.
Then in 2017, Philipp was diagnosed with a metastasis and had to go through strong chemotherapy treatments. This time, Ana decided to pick up her camera and document her husband’s fight against cancer.
The good news is that Philipp is healthy again. As Gosen told In Sight, “This series is called ‘The Meaning of Life’ and it is an intimate story about love, strength and how to live through hard times and cancer.”
