Front Lines: Portraits of Caregivers in Northern British Columbia

A joint creative effort by Northern writer and poet Sarah de Leeuw and photographer Tim Swanky, “Front Lines: Portraits of Caregivers in Northern British Columbia” provides a thoughtful and vivid glimpse into the stories behind the way community health care practitioners come to their work and life in northern communities. Profiling forty social workers, pharmacists, nurses and doctors from different communities across Northern BC, “Front Lines” seeks to explore the diversity of practice and ways of working that are informed by the inextricable links between place, health and culture.

Released to glowing reviews and received with continuing praise from communities, health care practitioners, researchers and new audiences, this work is exemplary of the transformative role of creative processes, such as writing, story and photography, in exploring and understanding strengths and resiliencies of Northern communities in the face of persistent health disparities.

Front Lines: Portraits of Caregivers in Northern British Columbia
By Sarah de Leeuw and Tim Swanky
Creekstone Press, 2011
Smithers, BC

Hard cover edition with dust jacket
40 essays and full colour portraits
11" x 12", 104 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9783195-4-0