Depression has life-changing effects on the people who suffer from it and those around them.
Those who have this mental illness can often feel like theyre all alone in their struggles.
With the stigma thats attached to it, however, folks are less than inclined to talk about it.
This form of poignant depression photography is often autobiographical.
Many photographers represent this feeling by obscuring the face.
Completing projects like these can be the path to clarity.
In addition to educating those who don’t have depression (or anxiety, OCD, etc.
), it offers reflection and by extension, a form of art therapy.
Through obscured portraits, he also demonstrates how jarring it can be.
Your mind is who you are, heexplains, and when it doesnt work properly, it’s scary.
Her aim was to help remove the stigma surrounding the illness.
Crafted as self portraits, you’ve got the option to never see her face.
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PhotographerGabriel Isakuses his depression as the catalyst for his project calledThe Blue Journey.
Although not exclusively about depression,My Anxious Heartconveys many of the same distressing emotions produced because of it.
Through this project I recognized how intimacy and fragility can be painful but rewarding, Drennansays.
Vulnerability is what makes us human, what makes us beautiful.
Like others, Hopkins has also struggled with a sense of selfan aspect that comes through his images.
Who myself may truly be is still something I struggle with daily.
The travel and its accompanying photographs were a very spontaneous trip.
The tranquil, overwhelmingly blue images represent her living with depression.
I don’t want anyone to have to feel even close to how I felt.
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As a result, Rayburn infuses a sense of hope in his surreal images.
Full of warm light, his subjects look at peace among the beauty of nature.
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