Month: June 2015

So I was looking at pinterest for different photography things and saw a 30 day picture challenge that I’m going to do because it thought it would be fun. The picture challenge is also gonna double for my picture a day (kinda cheating but hey, that’s okay haha). Day 1 is a self portrait and today me and my boyfriend went out to lunch and then went to the duck pond (will post pictures tomorrow) and before hand I got ready and really liked my makeup and decided to use this photo. Later on in the day I downloaded an app that does double exposure stuff called Diana Photo and really loved this photo. Even though it looks like I have a nose ring, I really don’t. I over layed a picture of me over a picture of flowers and it placed under my nose. But this app is great…

Please welcome first-time contributor Anne, a 42-year-old divorced mother of two. Anne has dealt with post-partum depression after the birth of her first child, unemployment, a second child and subsequent divorce a couple of years later. Since then, she has found herself dealing with depressive episodes, made more acute by the solitude of her mono-parental situation and the absence of her family of origin in her surroundings. When facing a depressive episode, she finds it very hard to speak up. Photography, painting, and writing have becomes an outlet for these silent, voiceless screams.

About this photo: “While on a walk on the Brooklyn beach front, the heavy wind was picking up the sand, and the silhouettes of people moving towards Coney Island resonated with this feeling of being a shadow of myself.”

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