Therapeutic Photography and Self-Knowledge
Photography, as a therapeutic tool, aims to enhance the health, well-being, and personal growth of individuals through the utilization or creation of images.
Photography, as a therapeutic tool, aims to enhance the health, well-being, and personal growth of individuals through the utilization or creation of images.
Today, more than ever in history, we have the possibility to take pictures at any time. We create images quickly and easily. We create images because we can.
Photography, since its invention, has changed our lives in every way, what we know, how we represent ourselves, what we discover and document.
Claude Cahun used self-portraiture to document her changes, to invent possible identities, and to become what she desired. The camera not only captures who we are, but also allows us to invent who we want to be, to discover that what defines us is fluid and ever-changing, that we are free to reinvent ourselves at any moment in our lives. This is the profound liberation.
Can images change the world we live in?
This great question can haunt those who make documentary photography, those who find spaces, places and communities in the world that need help or global support, and those who say that what is happening can’t happen in an ethical and civilized society.
In this second part, we jump to the 20th century. Photography as a therapeutic tool has been used and researched by many doctors and psychiatrists through different techniques and both individual and group resources
The use of photography as a therapeutic tool was explored and investigated by many doctors and psychiatrists with different individual and group techniques and resources.
This exhibition talks about the need to break the silence, to give light and make visible the reality of people in the process of integration, anonymous artists or ordinary people that we all are. The images show a normalizing and integrating nuance, an understanding of reality from the perspective of its own protagonists.
Have you ever thought about how you are? Who are you? If you are where you want to be? Typically, we don’t reflect on how we are, what makes us happy or brightens our days, unless something breaks our stability.
Want to start a photography project but don’t know where to start?
Would you like to build and develop your photography project authentically?
Many people spend their lives not doing what they truly wish, believing they must follow what they are expected to do rather than what they truly want.
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