Therapeutic Photography – Alleviating Mental Illness through Photography
Photography is a way to communicate with the world. Things that are hard to put in words or are intentionally held back due to fear of stigma can find their way into the world via images. The colors somehow compel one to embrace the otherwise odd concept and accept it as normal. Solen Feyissa , an avid photographer and Instructional Designer at the University of Minnesota (UMN ) talks about how we have immersed ourselves so much into the media-saturated world, where sticking to the screens of our devices seem to be the only plausible solution to our problems. We have not even given thought to the idea that we can pick up our cameras and move around to see, feel, and experience things for ourselves as they are rather than wishing and gasping while we scroll our screens. Researchers at Penn State a meta-analysis of more than 100 studies which focused on the effects of art on physical and psychological health in The Connection Between Art, Healing, and Public Health: A Review of Curren