Interview: Dana Stirling on the creation of her photobook, ‘Why Am I Sad’, and how mental health factors into her work.
Dana Stirling gives insight into the creation of 'Why Am I Sad', exploring her process and design choices. Reflecting on how photography supports her and that mental health is a constant companion when capturing images.
Interview: Kathleen Robbins on her project ‘Ginkgo’ an exploration of the messiness of profound loss, motherhood, grief, landscape and family.
Kathleen Robbins explains how the notion of place, exploration, time and memory are present throughout her work. Explaining the process of creating ‘Ginkgo’ with her son after the loss of her husband, its link to her family and how it has helped healing.
Interview: Heather Evans Smith on the creation of her project ‘Blue’ and its relation to depression
Heather Evans Smith shares how she created her first series of work that was specifically about depression, 'Blue'. Giving insight into the cathartic process she has created and how photography has become an important part of wellbeing and expression to her.
Sunday Spotlight: Heather Evans Smith
Heather Evans Smith channels the loss of her father during her mid 40’s, motherhood, hormonal changes and depression in her body of work titled ‘Blue’. Using the colour blue’s association to melancholy to explore the sadness in this period of her life and how it affects those around her.
Sunday Spotlight: Oliver Raschka
In 'Sorrow Is All The Pain Of Love', Oliver Raschka keeps a kind of photographic diary exploring the unintentional and unconscious documentation of states of mind and how they manifest visually. The work itself dealing with the personal sorrow of loss and pain in the search for identity.
Interview: Presley Rives on her practice and using journal entries to start the creation of ‘Until The Light Shines Again’
Presley Rives shares thoughts about her first project that centered around depression. Explaining her process from journal entries to the creation of images that helped her understand and work through her new diagnosis.
Sunday Spotlight: Ana Angilau
'Thinking A Lot About Life <3' by Ana Angilau explores themes of mortality, death, culture and religion. The body of work intending to challenge the absoluteness of a conditional life by understanding what matters most.
Sunday Spotlight: Presley Rives
In 'Until the Light Shines Again', Presley Rives uses images as a visual journal to cope, explore her internal self and document the highs and lows that come with depression. Originating from daily journal practices, her images capture moments that give her a reason to live. Light being used in the work as a symbol of hope and foreshadowing of better days.
Interview: Oliver Raschka on his practice and the creation of his archival project 'Sorrow Is All The Pain Of Love'.
Raschka explains the cathartic process of creating his project, ‘Sorrow Is All The Pain Of Love'. Noting that within the archival project he explores how personal traumas of serious family events, illnesses and burnout, manifest visually. Putting emphasis on his work being about healing and growing.
Sunday Spotlight: Amy Fleming
In ‘When Did I Stop Being Invincible?’, Amy Fleming creates an exploration of living life with a newfound anxiety disorder. Capturing small moments of time passing and mundane surroundings to show the viewer how she experiences her daily reality.
Interview: DMT on their practice and how being a creative works alongside the process of therapy and healing.
DMT shares how their practice shifted during the creation of ‘Holyday’. Shedding light on how they create work from their perspective, that cannot be what it is without their autism, and exploring how it draws on their experiences with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Sunday Spotlight: Maria Siorba
‘Blank Verse’ by Maria Siorba, focuses on the subject of observing and searching within the soul and inner landscape of others. Siorba uses the camera as a personal ‘reality testing’ tool to be able to explore the channels that navigate the collective and individual unconsciousness creatively and propose our very own journey of discovery.
Interview: Amy Fleming on her practice and using the camera to ground herself.
Amy Fleming gives insight into how she started making photographs to help her with the new reality of being diagnosed with a panic disorder. Focusing on her body of work titled ‘When Did I Stop Being Invincible?’.
Sunday Spotlight: DMT
DMT’s ‘Holyday’ narrates post traumatic stress disorder through documentary photography primarily of family members. Their body language rearranged to match the surreal and storied pictures inside DMT’s head.
