Edward Honaker
Edward Honaker is a 30-year-old man from California, who suffered from depression and anxiety disorders throughout his life. In order to help him cope with his mental illnesses, he decided to get into photography. He used it as a medium to explore what life is like with mental illnesses, to convey the confusion, hopelessness, and stress he encountered in his day-to-day life. Using his expertise in the manipulation of color and light, he creates amazing self-portraits that perfectly encapsulates his emotions. As I just mentioned, his main focus is on self-portraits, using this specific style of photography to educate others on the struggles of mental illness, while creating deeply profound and beautiful pictures. This picture immediately stuck out to me while I was looking at Honaker's works. It shows himself laying down, looking tired or defeated, surrounded in empty white space. It looks like he used negative space and centering, as despite being in the middle, the figure doesn...