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Nathalie Latham (Tamil Nadu) was a documentary film maker and photographer until cancer halted her life. Now, she has re-emerged as an artist, with a beautiful book about her treatment, recovery and emergence into her new phase of life. 'I AM ALIVE" is a testament to resilience and creativity, and how the two intertwine. With eloquence and humour, Nathalie talks to Jessica Fellowes about how it felt to surrender to the process of intensive treatment, her move to India and her work as an environmentalist. The podcast ends with Nathalie's moving Love Letter to Life.

'Beloved life, you are my love, my center. I honor you in all I do on this earth with these hands and this heart. In the meal I cook, in the tree I plant, in the hand I hold, in the drawing I create, in the joy I share.Sacred life, beloved life, I am alive.'

You can buy Nathalie's book from nathalielatham.com

This episode was produced by Vanessa Heaney.

Music by Alex Vickers

I AM ALIVE : Creating Resilience and Healing Trauma through Creativity is a visual memoir by Nathalie Latham.

Beneville Studios and Forum generously hosted the book launch with a conversation led by ‪@sonyabekkerman968‬ on 10 October 2025, NYC.

The book is an unflinching and luminous account of illness, faith, resilience, creativity and the transformative role of art in finding one’s way back to life.

ABOUT OUR GUEST:

Nathalie Latham is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is fuelled by a deep commitment to storytelling, creative expression, and environmental advocacy. A polyglot and accomplished photographer, she gained international recognition with her critically acclaimed solo exhibition Love It & Leave It: Australia's Creative Diaspora at the Australian National Portrait Gallery in 2007. Her work has been featured in prominent international publications, including Le Monde 2 (France), Domus (Italy), Frankfurter Rundschau (Germany), and the Australian Financial Review.

Nathalie is also Director of Programs at Green Sakthi, a reforestation project which has so far planted 2 million trees in South India, supports women's empowerment and has educated 6000 local school children to date.

Today’s guest on The Many Faces of Cancer Podcast is Nathalie Latham, photographer and film maker, based in Paris, until her life altering diagnosis of Stage 3 cervical cancer at age 39. During her therapy, she was stuck in bed for 7 days and nights and needed activity to focus her mind, so she began drawing. As she recovered, she kept drawing to remind herself that she was alive. These drawings are now part of her visual memoir I AM ALIVE: Creating Resilience and Healing Trauma through Art.

We talk about brachytherapy radiation, the role of art in healing, accepting the past, how nature and spirituality helped her recover, embracing joy in the creative process, finding beauty in trauma, and so much more.

This conversation was incredibly beautiful, as is Nathalie’s work, and a perfect episode to end 2025 and prepare for a new year.

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