When Darkness Lifts

Photo taken by contributor Carrie Hilgert, a 36-year-old photographer and self-portrait artist from Northeast Kansas. After venturing into digital photography, she became interested in documenting her life with self portraits. This became particularly helpful when her life started to fall apart due to depression. All her other creative outlets left her, but she could always process her very dark feelings with self portraits. While she is doing much better now, she maintains compassion for those going through these hard things and hopes that her photography can give an honest insight into something that makes most people feel very isolated and alone.

About this photo: “This photograph is about the release that happens when things start clicking; when the darkness lifts.   And it does.” 

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11 replies to “When Darkness Lifts”

  1. Phenomenal image! The composition is exceptional, the lighting is perfect, and the subject is captivating. The whole concept of the work really evokes emotion, those feelings of release and arrival. Beautiful.

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