1. How does Bryony Campbell’s The Dad Project compare with Country Doctor? 

Both are work relating to health issues over an extended period of time in a diaristic mode. Both show a carer and the part they play in helping ill people. The particular narrative for each image supports the overall story.

They contrast in a number of ways, Eugene Smith’s is less emotional and more a recording of the facts from a distance where Bryony Campbell’s includes emotional images such at the two below of the blue sky and light which tells adds to the narrativeof how she is feeling.

2. What do you think she means by ‘an ending without an ending’? 

She could possible mean two things, she will see him again one day when she dies, or that he will live on in the work produced in the project and other photographs taken of him that keep his memory alive.

Notes :

In 1948 W. Eugene Smith made a photo essay for LIFE magazine. Country Doctor chronicles the ups and downs in the life of general practitioner Dr. Ernest Ceriani from Colorado over 23 days.