"People don't like change, especially changing their views," notes Dallas-based photographer Cherisha Kay Norman about the lack of adaptability of society to changes around them. As someone who has gone through many mental illnesses herself, she feels there needs to be more open and transparent discussion around the topics.
Her series 'Layers of Symptoms' tries to bridge this gap in a visual way. thephoblographer.com
"I wanted to normalize the emotions that I and so many others feel," says photographer Kimberly Kizzia about the mental struggles she and countless others experience daily. Acknowledging and acceptance of mental health issues are unfortunately not that widespread today.
“My earliest memories of nature are of the sea,” the French artist Natalia Kovachevski tells me. “Growing up as a Mediterranean girl, I was convinced I was a mermaid and a witch–a wild woman, part-animal, with an affinity for the natural world.”
“I find self portrait work to be both healing and inspiring,” says Chinelle Ro. She continues, “it helps to channel thoughts and feelings, positive and negative, into creating reflective art. ” We’ve been around a while here at The Phoblographer.
We love portrait photography. The creativity, the light, the imperfections all go into the photographic cocktail that gets our juices flowing. Platon, Annie Leibovitz, Richard Avedon - we're going to keep going - Diane Arbus, Angus McBean, Albert Watson, all of them made us fall in love with the craft.
When you don't have models or other people to work with, sometimes you turn into your own best portrait subject. That's part of the idea behind the selfie generation, but that's also the idea behind the work of photographer Sarah Burns.