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Did you know October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month?

What started out as an effort aimed at raising awareness about young women with breast cancer has turned into something more beautiful, more provocative and more revealing than fashion photographer David Jay could have imagined. By taking portraits of his subjects and their scarred chests, Jay unlocked a visual world few have seen where grace, guts, pain, and femininity all cross paths to expose a deeply moving side of humanity.

LIFE.com spoke to Jay about the culmination of his work — a book called The SCAR Project — and about the raw, hard-hitting images

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8 months ago  /  326 notes  /  Source: life