This photographic series delves into the topics of depression and suicide, in a visual form. There are no sensational or upsetting photos, only the reference of an upsetting topic.
‘Suspended,’ created in 2022 as a series of nine photographs, explores depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and the nuances that set us apart from each other. In each photograph, the person (body) remains anonymous while the silk fabric represents the subtle changes and characteristics that define each of us. The subject being in mid-air, jumping, represents the act of suicide, something I have thought about numerous times in the past. The following six new photographs are the additions to the series, each created in 2023, and accompanied by quotes from ‘The Myth of Sisyphus',’ an essay written by Albert Camus. And at the bottom you’ll find the original nine photographs.
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“Yet one will never be sufficiently surprised that everyone lives as if no one knew.”
“A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.”
“It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning.”
“Living is keeping the absurd alive… It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.”
“If the absurd cancels all my chances of eternal freedom, it restores and magnifies, on the other hand, my freedom of action.”
“But the point is to live.”
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