My Days of Losing Words

Photographer Rachael Jablo suffers from chronic migraine. Without medication, the pain makes her lose the ability to speak; with medication, she suffers from side effects that cause her to forget words. In My Days of Losing Words, she creates color photographs that act as synthetic memories of the lost words. The series consists of three types of images: domestic still life images, documentary images of medical spaces, and self-portraits at home and in medical spaces.

Rachael Jablo has exhibited across the country, including the Wall Space Gallery in Seattle, Washington; Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado; and Brandeis University.

Rachael Jablo, born 1975, is an American photographer. She was a landscape and urban landscape photographer until illness derailed her life, when she began photographing interiors and self-portraits. Jablo studied photography and new genres at the San Francisco Art Institute, earning a Masters in 2003. She has had solo exhibitions at George Lawson Gallery and Joyce Gordon Gallery in the Bay Area, and has been exhibited across the country, including the Wall Space Gallery in Seattle, Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado, and Brandeis University. She lives in San Francisco.

Robert Wuilfe is an independent curator in the San Francisco Bay area.
Previously he has been curator at di Rosa in Napa, California, founder of Landmarks Contemporary Projects in Philadelphia, and a curatorial fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program.

Dawn C. Buse, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Assistant Professor in the Clinical Health Psychology Doctoral Program of Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology of Yeshiva University. She is also a licensed clinical psychologist and Director of Behavioral Medicine at the Montefiore Headache Center, in New York, NY.