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Depression Hide and Seek
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 being seen. During depression it’s all about the conflict of wanting to hide away from everyone, but also wanting someone to see you and understand the pain you’re going through.”
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This a phenomenal depiction, ty for sharing 🙂
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Reblogged this on some serious jua kali.
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Thank for putting into words what I feel all of the time. Being visible and invisible. Great job on the photo. Wish I could learn how to do that.
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Perfect title.
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Reblogged this on a day with depression and commented:
This captures it perfectly.
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Very very expressive photo.
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Great photo and yes, yes, yes to what you say about it.
Thank you.
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beautiful image, Carrie. Please keep at it.
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wow, an incredibly truthful capture of the dark emotions of depression – great work
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Very cool photo!
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Great! I like that.
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What an incredibly gifted photographer. i would feel like jesus if i could take photos so great.
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