DYADIC | MAPJD 2016/17 | Projects

'Behind the I' - a portrait of the mind

If you could draw your mind, what would it look like? “‘Behind the I’ – a portrait of the mind” endeavours to understand people’s inner selves through art, and identify who they are and how they feel. At any given moment, 1 out of 6 people in the UK aged 16 to 64 experience mental distress. We are surrounded by faces that hide an aspect of themselves, just in case revealing their diagnosis might threaten everything they hold dear. I find photographing people helps me understand them - yet this approach only captures their outer reality. How could I ‘photograph’ the mind and create a portrait of what is going on inside, as well as outside, the heads of my subjects? The only way that seemed possible was to invite them to be both observer and creator of such a portrait. Perhaps we may never fully understand the journey through schizophrenia or depression, but we sure as hell can sit down and try.

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'Behind the I' - a portrait of the mind | Photography by Doma Doviglialo