Katerina Jebb

Katerina
Jebb

Katerina Jebb, Artist

Hospital trolley bed, Paris

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Scene from a memory of the streets of Paris in 1991, 35mm

Scene from a memory about a roll of film in the middle of the road in Paris, 35mm

Scene from a memory being in an empty stretcher inside a hospital in Paris in 1991

A fond memory of a hospital in Paris in 1991, seen in golden hour lighting, 35mm

Paris 1991. March 29th. I was 27. I was working as an experimental photographer. Out of work experimental photographer. I went to buy a roll of film. I crossed the road. I was hit by a car. My arm was smashed out of its socket. I woke up, from being unconscious, in the back of an ambulance and they were cutting my clothes off me. The next thing I know I’m in a public hospital, Bichat being rushed to emergency. And I remember being on a trolley being wheeled from A to B to C to D. And the male nurse heard me crying, sobbing, and he started singing, “No Woman, No Cry,” Bob Marley. And it changed forever my experience of injury and made me understand that actually it’s okay.

Katerina Jebb, artist
Hospital trolley bed, Paris