As the nuns cared for their guests, Laub followed them with her camera â?? itâ??s her way. Then, even after her mother-in-law died in late September, she found herself returning to Rosary again and again, still wanting to capture something of the kindness that her family had found there. She asked the nuns to sit for portraits, in which she stripped away the background to show their eyes and faces in clear focus. â??I wanted them to be quiet,â? she said, â??so their power could come through.â?
The nuns in particular had moved her. She was struck by their tenderness with the dying, how they painted womenâ??s fingernails and combed their hair, changed them into fresh nightgowns and arranged flowers in their rooms. â??This is how dying should be,â? Laub says. â??It doesnâ??t feel like a place of death. It feels like a place of living.â?
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