For this project in Digital Portfolio, the assignment was to photograph a series of portraits.

Photographing someone going through each stage of grief was my mission for this project. This image here documents a narrative of depression, one out of five of the stages of grief. Creating something that told a story, allowed the viewer to put each puzzle piece together with her surroundings, and offered slight discomfort of such a raw emotion was the goal. As a topic that is sensitive and personal, this project was one of the most impactful projects I have gotten to work on.

The result was a close-up of a girl in the midst of her depression– lying on the bathroom floor, seeing the numbness behind her eyes, and resorting to other methods to cope.