“Living the life of someone with a mental health illness”
Within this project I am going to be looking into what it means to have a mental health illness and understanding what it really means to be ‘depressed’ and the forms that depression can come in.
As part of this project I will be required to contact individuals who have previously experienced or are that are currently experiencing a mental health illness. To do this, I will need to reach out to some of the people that are in similar social groups/pages that I am in. I will also be required to prepare some questions that I would like to ask each individual; the point of these questions is not to reflect on the individuals past, for example what the starting point of their mental health illness, but instead to look at the journey which they have taken during that time. Key points that I would like to highlight is the help that each individual received during this time; whether personal and/or professional.
Along with the information that I will be gathering as part of my research I am also going to be taking photos of each individual in an environment that has a connection to them; by doing this I intend to have the text and image(s) presented side by side, so that when people are reading the text they will be able to picture that individual, and vice-versa.
As part of this project I am also planning on carrying out some illustration pieces to go alongside the text and image(s) for each individual.
To increase my research base, I will investigate artists whom have carried out similar work; these include, Suki Dhanda, Annie Leibovitz, Dorothea Lange, Cindy Sherman as well as many others.
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