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These Self-Portraits Challenge the Mental Health Taboo

WEBBehind the I – a portrait of the mind turns the human psyche inside-out, bringing elements of our interior, hidden universes to the fore. For the book and multimedia project, Dovgialo collaborated with people facing a variety of mental health-related obstacles. After photographing each participant, she invited them to draw over their

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These 11 Photographers Are Challenging the Mental Health Stigma

WEBThese 11 Photographers Are Challenging the Mental Health Stigma. By Ellyn Kail on May 27, 2021. One in five US adults experiences mental illness each year. I happen to be one of them. At least 8.4 million Americans provide care to. an adult with an emotional or mental illness, and depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide. …

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Photography as Self-Therapy: An Introduction for Beginners

WEBDuring that decade, consumer cameras became widely accessible and easy to use, and at the same time, psychologists, photography enthusiasts, and more started to explore the potential of taking photographs as a therapeutic tool for helping people of all ages improve their lives.. One of them was the psychoanalyst Dr. Robert Irwin Wolf, …

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Self-Portrait in Lockdown Wins the Wellcome Photography Prize

WEBTheir self-portrait, made in their London apartment during lockdowns, has been selected this week as the single-image winner of the Wellcome Photography Prize. “One thing I’ve always returned to when dealing with low mood is knitting,” says Prescod, who dealt with depression during the isolation brought on by the pandemic.

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These Veterans Are Using Photography to Cope with Trauma

WEBAt the Menlo Park Division of the VA Palo Alto Health Care System in California, veterans learn photography as a way of coping with trauma. Mark Pinto watches birds out in nature and renders them in blue with his old-fashioned cyanotypes. Ari Sonnenberg takes self-portraits in black and white. Homerina “Marina” Bond …

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Photographer Imagines Life Filled with Anxiety and Mental Illness

WEBDiving into psychosis and perception, John William Keedy imagines life. with mental illness in his series It’s Hardly Noticeable. The protagonist of his images lives an anxiety-filled life, highlighted by strange habits and nagging compulsions. From carefully copying lines in a newspaper to forever cementing puzzle pieces together, the

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Hospitalized for Depression, Laura Hospes Documents

WEBof relinquishing her passion and aspirations, she continued to make self-portraits within the confines of her temporary residence. The series UCP-UMCG, the photographer says, was born in part from the isolation inflicted by mental illness and social stigma.She and others dealing with depression, anxiety, or eating disorders aren’t …

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Artist Uses Photography As Means of Recovery from Mental Illness

WEBInsula spans across a decade of shooting (2003-2013). During this time I continually made photographs as a means to document the emotional difficulties of living with a chronic mental health disorder, as well as using photography as a tool for recovery. Whilst receiving medical treatment has been beneficial, it is the act of making …

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Shocking Images Document the Disturbing Living Conditions of …

WEB“Walking in the door has been easy,” says NY-based photographer Andrea Star Reese, whose ongoing documentary inside Indonesia’s mental facilities has taken her into the homes, schools, shelters and hospitals, where hundreds exist in appalling conditions because they are believed to be mentally ill. “Leaving is what is difficult,” …

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Can Photography Help Depression

WEBFirst and foremost, photography can serve a practical purpose for those struggling with depression by providing structure and incentive. “What worked for me might not work for others, but I think any creative outlet has the potential to benefit someone who struggles with their mental health,” Edinburgh photographer Daniel Smith explains.

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5 Photographers Cope with Anxiety Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic

WEBNeskhodimov’s work, and the work of the five photographers included in Wellcome’s Covid-19 Anxiety Project, reveal the multifaceted power of photography in this new decade–as a therapeutic tool, a driver of awareness and change, and a means of visualizing mental health, a topic that has remained all too invisible for far too long.

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Eugene Richards Looks Back at a Life in Photography

WEBLike W. Eugene Smith before him, photographer Eugene Richards (b. 1944) used the photo essay as a means to engage with his subjects through the profound transformation that comes when human beings not only connect, but are seen, heard, understood, and able to share their lives in a holistic way. Throughout the course of his …

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Photos Capture a Community of Transgender

WEBIn December of 1959, Paris’s Place Pigalle was overtaken by the annual carnival, the squares bustling with snake charmers, feral animals held in cages, strippers, and throngs of ecstatic visitors carrying cotton candy. In the midst of it all, the sex workers of Place Blanche lingered hither and thither, emerging from their hotel rooms to soliciting …

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Powerful Moments from a Mental Hospital in Pakistan

WEBAt the Punjab Institute of Mental Health in Lahore, Pakistan, reports Venice-based photographer Marylise Vigneau, Bollywood songs and melodies of devotion and religious lamentation ring out through the facility’s 1400 beds. Here, she encountered agony and heartache, but she also uncovered moments of gentleness and delight. During her …

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A Photographer Explores Love, Loss, Life and Death

WEBDavid Chancellor. Based between South Africa and the UK, David Chancellor has travelled extensively throughout his career as a documentary photographer. With a deep commitment to wildlife conservation, he has documented a wide range of pressing issues from the elephant poaching crisis in Africa to a mountain lion hunt in …

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One Photographer’s Fearless Look at Eating Disorders

WEBVienna photographer Mafalda Rakos understands that eating disorders are often cloaked in a shroud of silence and shame, but she also knows that talking about these illnesses is the only way to heal. I want to disappear – Approaching Eating Disorders is the result of a collaboration between the photographer and the women who trusted her to

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Mental Health Photography: Personal Stories from Photographers

WEBfrom Photographers Coping with Depression. As she entered mid-life, Susan Borowitz had her first experience with clinical depression. “My particular trigger came in the form of small. airplanes that flew near my house from the nearby airport,” she remembers. “Whenever I heard them, I would tense up, my anxiety would skyrocket, and I would

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A Poignant Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Suicide Respite Center

WEBMaytree is a house in Finsbury Park, London. It has four bedrooms, and its inhabitants change all the time. As a suicide respite center, it serves as a temporary home to people in crisis. Guests stay for four days and five nights only; during that time, they can speak openly with volunteers and peers.

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‘Birth is a Dream:’ Revealing Photos

WEBSince 2011, Patruno has been documenting maternal health in sub-Saharan Africa, including Ethiopia, Malawi, Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo, where 200,000 mothers die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth each year. Patruno takes us inside maternity wards, health centers and clinics. Gaining access to these …

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