Photograph awards shortlist picture of Birmingham most cancers affected person aged 3

{A photograph} of a younger little one getting therapy at Birmingham Children’s Hospital has been shortlisted for a significant images competitors.

Kris Askey, who works with the hospital’s fundraising staff, photographed Jessie, three, on the oncology ward, the place she was handled for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia.

He mentioned: “It’s a massive honour to have a photo like this recognised, and bring some awareness to children like Jessie and the Children’s Hospital itself.”

The photograph is one in every of 200 shortlisted for the British Journal of Photography’s Portrait of Britain Awards, with half that quantity to be declared the successful photographs in January.

The chosen 100 will then characteristic in quantity eight of the publication’s Portrait of Britain ebook sequence and also will be displayed on digital JCDecaux UK promoting screens throughout the nation.

Mr Askey, from Redditch, Worcestershire, mentioned he took photographs of workers and sufferers with tales to inform.

“Hopefully [my photo] can help highlight that [Jessie] is one of so many young children that have to endure a childhood that they and their family don’t deserve and didn’t ever plan for,” he mentioned.

“There is so much kindness, hard work and empathy that goes on inside the walls of the hospital and that is what I have always wanted to show within my photography there.”