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Personal Stories from Photographers Coping with Depression

As she entered mid-life, Susan Borowitz had her first experience with clinical depression. “My particular trigger came in the form of small airplanes that flew near my house from the nearby airport,” she remembers. “Whenever I heard them, I would tense up, my anxiety would skyrocket, and I would go deeper into despair.” She also remembers laying down on the floor of the shower and letting the hot water run over her: it was one thing that helped her to feel calm.

Ultimately, Borowitz sought help through psychotherapy and medication. She emerged from that period of despair. Somewhere along the way, she discovered a passion for photography as well.

Through her work, perhaps Borowitz is coming to terms with what happened to her in the past. Maybe she’s fortifying herself in case it happens again in the future. Probably both. “I can’t say why I wanted to do it,” she tells me. “It just became what I do.”

This kind of internal drive and motivation—the idea photographers make pictures not necessarily because they want to but because they feel they must—comes up again and again when we speak to artists making work about their experiences with depression. Then, somewhere along the way, they inevitably end up helping other people by showing us that we’re not alone. We asked four photographers to share their stories.

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Projecting L.A. 2024

Projecting L.A. 2024 is coming back on April 27, 2024, with a larger than life presentation featuring the work of 30 photographers telling compelling stories of life in the city of LA projected three stories high in downtown. Featured guests will include actor, musician and photographer Jeff Bridges, Pulitzer Prize Winner Ringo Chiu, L.A. Times Pulitzer Prize Winner Christina House, legendary L.A. photographer Estevan Oriol, and many others.

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