Ziv Koren / Heartbeat

Anat, 3-year-old

When she was an infant of only a few months old, a tumor was discovered in her liver. Anat underwent chemotherapy, and when she was 3-year-old, she had a liver lobe transplant; her father was the donor. She needed additional surgeries to remove metastases from her diaphragm and lungs with further radiation.

Anat, 3½, in the Hemato-Oncology Department

Anat, two weeks before her liver lobe transplant

Anat undergoes liver lobe transplantation

Anat and her father underwent surgery simultaneously

Anat, a week after the transplant

Anat with her mother, sandy, a week after the transplant

Anat: "Did you see my peace sign?"

Anat, a week after the transplant

Everything for the smile of a child

Anat takes her medication

Five years later

Anat, 9-year-old

Anat, 9 year old, lives in Kibbutz Eilon. Anat is in fourth grade, loves to sing, is a member of the choir and participates in the theater class. Anat has two older sisters. The three are close and love to travel together. Anat lives a healthy and happy life.

Ziv Koren, an awardwinning docu-photographer, volunteered to document daily hospital routine and special moments taking place within the walls of Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel. Five years later, Ziv Koren returned to the hospital and photograph those same children again in a similar location – and healthy.

Heartbeat by Ziv Koren