Minu fotoprojekt lähtub isiklikust kogemusest depressiooniga, kuid ei püüa seda seisundit selgitada, vaid näitab, kuidas see on kohal igapäevaelus – kehas, ruumis ja ajas. Depressioon on väsimus, kordus, seiskumine ja tunne, et keha ei allu tahtele. Keha muutub millekski, mis kannab seda seisundit edasi ka siis, kui seda ei nimetata.
Fotode visuaalne keel on teadlikult toores. Minu eesmärk on, et vaataja üksnes ei vaataks seisundit, vaid viibiks selles. See töö ei taotle samastumist ega kaastunnet. Pigem pakub see võimalust aeglustuda ja märgata seisundit, mis on sageli nähtamatu just oma igapäevasuse tõttu. Fotograafia toimib selles projektis tunnistusena. Staatiline kujutis ei ravi ega seleta, kuid ta ei luba ka mööda vaadata.
My photography project is based on personal experience with depression, but it does not attempt to explain this condition. Instead, it shows how it is present in everyday life — in the body, in space, and in time. Depression is fatigue, repetition, stagnation, and the feeling that the body does not obey will. The body becomes something that carries this condition onward even when it is not named.
The visual language of the photographs is deliberately raw. My aim is for the viewer not merely to look at the condition, but to dwell within it. This work does not seek identification or sympathy. Rather, it offers an opportunity to slow down and notice a state that is often invisible precisely because of its everydayness. In this project, photography functions as a testimony. A static image neither heals nor explains, but it also does not allow one to look away.
