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When I Die: The Last Two Weeks of Philip Gould’s Life

This intimate portrait reveals his quest to find purpose and meaning in what he called “The Death Zone.” He had been diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus in 2008 and was given three months to live in the summer of 2011.

Directed and photographed by Adrian Steirn

Ed note: The story behind photographing Appalachia’s “country wakes.”