This project is about mental health and how it has closely influenced my own path.
I wanted to address this issue for a personal need and also because it is a little treated and very undervalued topic at the moment in our society.
This serie’s shots were conceived through the use of metaphors, choosing a very conceptual and purely experimental approach to photography.
I wanted to maintain a very clean aesthetic, going for still life, environmental and figure shots.
Initially, the subject begins to perceive certain feelings and emotions without understanding their reason.
Discomfort, anguish and frustration become more and more constant, slowly leading the subject to experience a perpetual state of malaise, disorientation and alienation including a series of physical changes.
All this leads to creating a boundary with the outside world, enhancing a sense of isolation and self-protection.
The number 44 has great significance thanks to all its symbolism, it has been a key element that has brought me relief and hope during this phase of my life.
