Cover Story: Malika Favre’s “Operating Theatre”

“I was operated on when I was five or six . . . I vividly remember the counting down from ten—I don’t think I made it much past eight,” Malika Favre says, about her inspiration for the cover of the Health, Medicine, and the Body issue. “I tried to capture that feeling of people watching you lose consciousness . . . Most people have experienced it, but it still remains mysterious.”