ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This piece is a self-portrait that depicts my personal struggle with mental illness, symbolizing how powerless it can feel when your mental illness controls you more than you control it.

AUTHOR
I’ve been a photographer for three years; my journey in photography began in freshman year of high school when I signed up for an introductory photography class on a whim, thinking that it might be fun. I really wasn’t expecting much. However, by the third project, I realized that I had fallen completely in love. Creating has always been a passion of mine, from words, to acting, to music, but photography has made it possible for me to create very unique and personal works of art based on the things that surround me in my daily life. Many photographers say that it’s not the subject that gives a photo its meaning, but the story behind the photo itself, and I wholeheartedly agree with that idea. Every photo has traces of its photographer in it, and that is what makes this medium so unique. It allows every person to show others their point of view on life, to express feelings in a variety of ways using the things we see around us. I personally enjoy working with more abstract visual concepts that convey more ambiguous meanings so the meaning and mood is up to the viewer to interpret. Everyone has a different life experience, so each person’s interpretation is unique and that’s what makes it all so interesting to me.

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