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A picture of health

Photography’s power to incite social change by making health issues visible should not be underestimated. Breaking the Chains, a documentary photography and … See more

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The therapeutic potential of photography

WEBDaniel Regan began photographing at the age of 12, when he first started experiencing mental health difficulties. As an artist, he has produced intimate and nuanced expressions about his experience of hospitalisation, grief and self-harm. “Photography is an intrinsic way of processing difficult life events.

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Illness, health, and the place in between

WEBVale is the latest photobook by the artist, which he has self-published. Images of old trees, verdant valleys and hot summer hazes denote an archetypal British countryside and typify the narrative. Alongside this, disconcerting elements peek from behind; something can be felt amongst the trees.

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Picture this: The Mind

WEBEsther, The Bell Jar’s protagonist, compares her mind to a tornado’s eye as she veers deeper and deeper into depression — her life spins out of control while a heavy emptiness ensnares her. Similarly, fear and anxiety consume us as a relentless pandemic engulfs the lives we once had. For those with pre-existing mental health issues, the

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Exploring mental health through photography

WEB8 of 8 Exploring mental health through photography “Food is the enemy my body is the battle field.” Source: Pro-Ana website. Thinspiration are images of skinny women, usually celebrities or models, who may be anything from naturally slim to skeletal with visibly protruding bones.

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Jameisha Prescod on demystifying chronic illness

WEBCertainly, collective solidarity is at the core of 26-year-old Jameisha Prescod’s endeavours. Prescod, based in south London, is the founder of You Look Okay to Me, an online creative space for people with a chronic illness. There, she debunks the myths around what it means to be chronically ill, as well as the ways that arts and culture

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A new open call for powerful visual stories on mental and physical

WEBHealth is a universal topic, no matter your age or demographic. Its impact is transformative, and its challenges can mean life or death. The Wellcome Photography Prize, now open for entry, aims to take this familiar theme and explore it through visual language.While international questions of health, science, and medicine can often feel …

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The fight for women's freedoms: Looking back at history through

WEBOn Abortion is part of a new exhibition, Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency, on show at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.The show directly confronts the history relating to women’s reproductive health, which has long been shrouded in shame, affected by bad science and discrimination.

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Soham Gupta's Eden blurs the line of fact and fiction in a world …

WEBGupta shakes off the criticism. “I wanted to provoke a reaction, and I did.” Elsewhere, he notes he wanted to shake Calcutta’s more comfortable residents out of their complacency, to force them to think about their less fortunate neighbours.

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Community, love, isolation and health in Leonard Suryajaya’s …

WEBSuryajaya’s ongoing project, Quarantine Blues, acknowledges his experiences of the last year, charting the erratic tempo of his psychological landscape. His tone is somewhere between overwhelm and bemused. Laced with humour and tragedy, he speaks to notions of community, family, love, isolation and health, as well as the …

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Celebrating 75 years of the NHS

WEBThe National Health Service (NHS) was born in 1948 out of the belief that good healthcare should be available to all, regardless of wealth. Promising to care for the citizens of Britain ‘from the cradle to the grave’, it is widely regarded as one of the country’s greatest political achievements. As we approach the NHS’s 75th anniversary

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The Town of Tomorrow: 50 Years of Thamesmead

WEBNow a new book published by Here Press, titled The Town of Tomorrow: 50 years of Thamesmead, celebrates the estate’s past, present, and future. The book is a collaborative effort between three artists: Peter Chadwick, author of This Brutal World (Phaidon) and popular Twitter feed @brutalhouse; Tara Darby, who produced all the …

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John Moore on documenting epidemics both home and away

WEBThis is partly due to the necessity for international aid and attention for the Ebola crisis, but discussing the differences between documenting an epidemic at home and away, Moore highlights another primary issue, which is access. “Access to healthcare professionals in Liberia was easier than here in the US,” says Moore.

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An antidote to shame and secrecy: photographing Obsessive …

WEBThe photographs were coming to serve as a kind of antidote to the shame and secrecy that had characterised some of the family experiences to date. “When we think back to where we were back in 2007, and how dark and difficult things were back then, and where we are now, we realise that we moved mountains,” the photographer says.

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Exploring masculinity and mental health through the image

WEBIn aid of CALM, five London-based photographers – Scarlet Page, Helena Berg, Jennifer Pattison, Will Morgan and Peter Guenzel – have put on ‘Alpha’ an exhibition that responds to masculinity and mental health. Each photographer interpreted a particular aspect of depression or the male emotional experience to create a complex body of

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Keerthana Kunath’s work addresses stigma and identity in rural India

WEBKunath’s project, titled Naduu, pictures young women and girls where she grew up.Using photography, she hopes to stimulate the dialogue around sexuality and mental health . Calicut fashion and lifestyle photographer Keerthana Kunath attended the National Institute of Fashion Technology in New Delhi, India, after which she pursued a …

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Edward Burtynsky on climate, abstraction, and hanging photos like

WEBEdward Burtynsky is standing in front of the most ambitious and labour-intensive photograph he has ever made. It is a blanket of golf-ball sized orbs and growths in pink, orange, green and brown, unfurling across an entire wall in London’s Saatchi Gallery. Pengah Wall #1 is an underwater photograph – or rather, a digital image composed of

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Georgie Wileman: “I want the vulnerability of men to be shown”

WEBBoys Do Cry is the latest project by Brooklyn-based British photographer Georgie Wileman. It portrays the scourge of suicide through the lives of a selection of young men, each of whom has endured depression, survived suicide attempts, or suffered through the loss of a loved one. “Suicide is the biggest killer in men under 45,” explains

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OCD has a PR problem: How Portrait of Britain brought an …

WEBFor Norton, winning Portrait of Britain meant that a tender photograph of her mother and sister – taken from within the family home in the midst of the Christmas national lockdown – was now an opportunity to confront the British public with an alternative visual representation of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Portrait of Britain is the UK’s largest …

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