Split

Photo taken by contributor Carrie Hilgert, a photographer and portrait artist in her thirties 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 took this the day I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I’ve suspected for a while that this was going on. This portrays the contradictory pull of the different sides of me that come out, sometimes quite rapidly.”

Find more from Carrie at her blog or flickr.

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13 replies to “Split”

  6. Wow, great job capturing the torture of conflict and indecision within ourselves. I love how one part of the self is standing by, perhaps unsure of how to proceed, while other parts continue to battle. Very powerful. Thank you.

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