#Mental - Stories
November 2020
 United Kingdom Brighton/London I am a photographer from Lancing, near Brighton. I grew up in a single parent family, in a council house. My art is work to make change and highlight the ever expanding gaps between the classes, as well as commenting on other political topics.
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 Georgia Tbilisi There are moments and unfortunately such moments occur quite often when you do not want to leave the room, do not want to leave the house, you do not want to get up in the morning or do not want to get up at all. You do not even know what you want, you have lost the appetite, you cannot enjoy f... |
 United Kingdom Wiltshire "Mental" was a perfect catagory for me when I saw it on artjobs instagram page.
Obviously over this year it's been a trying time for every single one of us. When I looked back through my paintings over the years I realsied I have struggled for far longer until I was aware by a professional.... |
 Turkey Istanbul "Imposibility of love turn all mankind of man to mad one"
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 United States of America St. Charles Women are rarely one thing or another. They cannot be categorized or labeled. A woman can be anything and everything at any given time. Within are the secrets that they keep. The world is full of monsters with friendly faces and angels full of scars. We never reveal, eve... |
 Canada Mississauga I suffer with bipolar disorder and I always have to put on a mask but it sits behind my just haunting me? I try to find light in the holes that are dug by myself.
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 United States of America Southport Jacob Clayton is a visual artist who uses photography, video, and mixed media as means to expand the vocabulary that challenges societal expectations and cultural representations of gender identity and expression. His work often chronicles a therapeutic journey through dissociation and the road to g... |
 United Kingdom Derry Lough Foyle is beautiful. It is the life blood for our wonderful city. It has also had a very dark role to play in our history despite this natural beauty.
Suicide rates in Northern Ireland are amongst the highest in the world. Post conflict more lives have been lost to suicide than those l... |
 Spain Barcelona The moment when you’re feeling emptiness taking over your body, a never ending free fall. A tired woman, nervous, short-tempered under pressure of the abnormal and contradictory.
She’s lost any emotion, what is concrete, what is personal, what is real - everything reduced into abstractions - isol... |
 United States of America New Orleans The model who posed for this body painting was at the time going through a very bad situation where (as I found out later) he'd ended up being put in prison. He knew when he modeled for me that his life was over as he'd known it and there was little chance that he would beat the charges. As the arti... |
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Mental
Open Call for powerful visual stories on mental health, the contest aim to exploring the
topic in photography through the lens of artists, showcases the reality of those who
directly or indirectly confront the challenges of mental problem and to
raise awareness of mental health issues.
