Images of anguish.
Photographer Michael Nye has put together a collection of multimedia portraits of people with panic disorder, depression, schizophrenia, and other mental health problems. Audio recordings of his subjects accompany the black-and-white photos he's taken of them:
In four or five minutes of audio, Nye's subjects each offer intimate details about their lives, their thoughts, their hopes, their regrets, their fears. Sometimes the painful details are hard to hear. But despite their honesty and openness, these people remain somewhat anonymous. They are known only by their first names; basic details - such as ages and hometowns - are missing. The semi-anonymity protects their identities to some degree, but it also accomplishes something else: It makes mental illness seem universal. The people in the photos could be anyone.
The exhibit (called Fine Line: Mental Health/Mental Illness) is currently up at the
Fort Worth Museum.
Images of anguish.
Photographer Michael Nye has put together a collection of multimedia portraits of people with panic disorder, depression, schizophrenia, and other mental health problems. Audio recordings of his subjects accompany the black-and-white photos he's taken of them:
The exhibit (called Fine Line: Mental Health/Mental Illness) is currently up at the Fort Worth Museum.