She was documenting her human scars.
Ms. Konttinen was unaware that she was documenting a place that was about to disappear.
But as she spent more time in Didimoticho, a small town in the Thracian prefecture of Evros, she realized she was documenting an almost-unknown part of Greece.
As the work began, Ms. Slavkina, a branding and marketing consultant, decided to use the Internet strategically, telling her contractor that she was documenting the project online.
It was the making - but very nearly the breaking - of Leibovitz, who became part of the rock 'n' roll drug culture she was documenting, picking up her own cocaine habit that took five years to shake off.
She was documenting her life in photographs in a way that people were not yet doing".
In the past, she's documented her battle with anorexia, her time as a burlesque dancer, her rape at 19 by a "well respected" older man.
Now, with the additional perspective of the intervening decades, she's documented that trip as a sprawling, meditative graphic novel, TODAY IS THE LAST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE (Fantagraphics, paper, $35).
She's documented not separately but under the Royal Court, just before a paragraph about "amenities" and immediately after a list of Barkers and Bonds and Weskers and Osbornes and Hamptons – all of whom are given individual entries.
She's documented the whole thing for a new Lifetime reality series, "Vivica's Black Magic," which debuted Wednesday. .
