![Art, Camera, Image, Photoshop, Toys, Anxiety, Mental Health, Kevin Dooley, Photography, Feelings](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2024/01/fear-6562668_1280-470x140.png?x81652)
Kevin Dooley is an artist that specializes in photography and has been publishing images on Flickr for many years. His pieces range from fun images…
![Men Do Not Cry](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2021/05/1913C7B2-5025-4FF3-B8DC-A54240306585-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Richmond Kobla is a Ghanaian-born photographer based in Sydney, Australia. His project “Men Do Not Cry” was inspired by a written blog from fellow Sydney-based…
![loneliness, student, international, young, mental health, depression, hobby, photography, winter, snow](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/02/74A52A31-A377-4737-9E5C-1261AD2F2AA8-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
The following photograph, captured by university student Freya, describes her struggles of adjusting to a new culture all by herself, and how she found the…
![Mental health, Criminally Insane, Prison, Chair, Freaktography, Abandoned Asylum, images, photography, Loss, mental illness](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/07/BAFE525B-8AE3-4735-92AB-0C15C045F296-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Remnants still remain of an abandoned asylum that used to house the criminally insane in New York. A photographer by the name of Freaktography managed to…
![Visual Art, Photography, Anxiety, Depression, Mental Illness, Mental Health, Recovery, Coping, Addiction, Eating Disorder](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/07/6A72AE51-AC34-4BE5-8562-E3969B2FDA98-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
This series of images created by York University student Jessica Butler, represents her struggle with anxiety. The series represents internally feeling overwhelmed and chaotic, while…
![Life-On-The-Lines,-Mental-Health,-Stigma,-TTC,-art,-awareness,-artists,-mental-illness,-photography,-images,-Jessica-Okonski](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/03/Life-On-The-Lines-Mental-Health-Stigma-TTC-art-awareness-artists-mental-illness-photography-images-Jessica-Okonski-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Life On The Line, a non-profit art project organized by Twentytwenty Arts, featured prints of original artworks by 20 local artists displayed inside subway trains, in Toronto. This…
![The Other Side of Depression](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2017/09/Feature-Amanda-August-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Depression by artist DestinyBlue shows the duality between the public face of depression and the private. Often those with depression will hide it, and might…
![Faces of Mental Illness](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2017/03/2016_Jenson_Positive-Mindset-470x140.png?x81652)
At the University of Minnesota, art is used to create a dialogue about mental health. Art in Mind was a mental-health art exhibit that presented works…
![Photography Documenting Mental Illness Draws Criticism](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/06/Feature-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
For the past six years, Melissa Spitz of St. Louis, Missouri has been using photography to illustrate her mother’s experience with mental illness, referring to…
![Romanticization of Mental Illness by Kelsey Weaver](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/03/12670690473_cb2e9ba2f0_h-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In her album, “romanticization of mental illness” Kelsey Weaver reveals an ongoing struggle with self-harm and self-medication.