
I Am Not Crazy
I want to show a realistic representation of women with mental illness because current photography of mental illness is subjected to the male gaze and romanticized to be aesthetic. As photography has been a mainly male-dominated field, I want to remove the sexist and biased lens of the male perspective from my photos. I will be showing emotions like depression and anxiety as not hysteria and in a realistic, self-aware manner. I will be using depression and anxiety as emotions and concepts and not as clinical diagnoses. I use realism in my photography to try to connect a specific feeling with the viewer in the manner of it being familiar. My project aims to expand the representation of female mental illness in a gallery of photos using staged realism as the style of photography.
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Work Title | I Am Not Crazy |
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License | CC BY 4.0 (Attribution) |
Work Type | Masters Culminating Experience |
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Publication Date | 2022 |
DOI | doi:10.26207/s6zg-8m43 |
Deposited | May 04, 2022 |