Photo taken by contributor Carrie Hilgert, a 36-year-old photographer and 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: “i call this photograph, if vision is my only validation, the rest of my life isn’t real. this was a series i took when i lost a bunch of weight and finally stopped hating my body. i went through a transformation inside and out and it was a time of awakening.”
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great photo! Part of my depression is from body dysmorphic disorder so I can totally relate and understand how you felt before and after that period of your life.
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and then I gained it all back and fought those demons again. it does get easier and becomes less about size.
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Love the photo!
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I can totally relate to how you feel about self-portraits. They’ve helped me process my own feelings as well: anxiety and body dysmorphia. This shot is so beautiful. It’s really empowering and gives me a ton of inspiration. Thank you for sharing ❤
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