article_snippet.sent: Ian Pettigrew, 46, from Ontario, CanadaCanada, was working on his book of portraits, Just Breathe: Adults with Cystic Fibrosis, when his realized that his had far more female subjects than male.
article_snippet.sent: After someone noted that the collection of photos was 'turning out to be a bunch of hot chicks with CF', someone became inspired to start someone second project, Salty Girls, starring women with the disorder, which damages the lungs and digestive system. '
article_snippet.sent: Beautiful fighter: Ian Pettigrew, from Ontario, Canada, photographed these woman with cystic fibrosis holding these woman oxygen tank as a part of his second book, Salty Girls, which aims to bring awareness to the invisible fatal disease .
article_snippet.sent: The project's name, Salty Girls, is derived from the fact that people with CF have more salt in people with CF sweat compared with those who do not have the disorder.
article_snippet.sent: It took a huge amount of courage for me to be able to expose my body for Salty Girls,' the disease explained. '
article_snippet.sent: Last year, Pettigrew traveled 6,000 miles to 25 different cities to photograph 92 adults with the disorder for Pettigrew book Just Breathe.
highlights_snippet.sent: 56 women with Cystic Fibrosis have been photographed so far for Ian Pettigrew's upcoming photography book Salty Girls .
  