Hideaki Kawashima: between anxiety and nirvana

Hideaki Kawashima - Anxiety, 2008


Hideaki Kawashima


Hideaki Kawashima - Nirvana, 2008

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Scarred lives

Kosuke Okahara spends time with young people in Japan who resort to self-mutilation as a means to cope with lives shadowed by anxiety, mental illness, and sexual abuse.


Kosuke Okahara - Sayuri, 22 years old, smokes a cigarette in her room. She smokes 2 - 3 packets of cigarettes in a day
(from the Ibasyo, self-mutilation in Japan series).


Kosuke Okahara - Sayuri, 22 years old, driving a car at night. She just quit her job since her condition became really bad and she could not continue to work normally. Sayuri had experiences of sexual abuse in her childhood and that triggered self-injury
(from the Ibasyo, self-mutilation in Japan series).


Kosuke Okahara - Mariko takes medicine before she sleeps. She always takes sleeping pills because she can not fall sleep as usual since she became mentally ill (from the Ibasyo, self-mutilation in Japan series).


Kosuke Okahara - Kaori. Plagued by depression and what she describes as panic attack disorder, the 23-year-old from Fukuoka cycles through jobs. In order to deal with her anxiety, she sometimes resorts to injuring herself. In this photo, she makes a bandage to stop the bleeding (from the Ibasyo, self-mutilation in Japan series).

Elisa Sassi's moods

Elisa Sassi - Rain obsession


Elisa Sassi - Heavy thoughts


Elisa Sassi - V. ITAMIN


Elisa Sassi - Tiny


Elisa Sassi - Restart

Tales from Odessa

Joseph Sywenkyj's intimate portraits of Ira and Sasha, both HIV-positive, and their children.


Joseph Sywenkyj - Tanya cartwheels through the kitchen. Ira, her mother, is HIV-positive.
Odessa, Ukraine, 2004 (from the Verses series).


Joseph Sywenkyj - Ira and Rita walk with Masha to the Out Patient AIDS Center.
Odessa, Ukraine, 2002 (from the Verses series).


Joseph Sywenkyj - Sasha, who is HIV-positive, holds his daughter Masha.
Odessa, Ukraine, 2002 (from the Verses series).


Joseph Sywenkyj - Tanya and Masha. Masha is HIV-positive.
Odessa, Ukraine, 2005 (from the Verses series).

(via rachelhulin)

Gender flavor

Rachel Papo captures the life of women serving in the Israeli army. Elzbieta Jablonska tells us about Polish super-mothers. JeongMee Yoon explores the wardrobes of young girls and boys. Cass Bird and Molly Landreth take us on a trip across queer America. Julia Fullerton-Batten has visited a most scary school.


Rachel Papo (from the Serial No. 3817131 series)


Rachel Papo (from the Serial No. 3817131 series)


Elzbieta Jablonska (from the Supermother series)


JeongMee Yoon (from The Pink & Blue Project series)


Cass Bird (from the Portraits series)


Molly Landreth (from the Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America series)


Julia Fullerton-Batten (from the School Play series)

Super Rich • Ultra Gorgeous • Extra Skinny • Forever Young

Tania Fernandez, Lauren Greenfield, Zbigniew Libera, and Barbara Kruger have their say on our image-obsessed society.

Tania Fernandez (from the Academia de Refinamiento series)


Tania Fernandez (from the Academia de Refinamiento series)


Lauren Greenfield (from the Thin series)


Lauren Greenfield (from the Thin series)


Zbigniew Libera (Ken's Aunt)


Barbara Kruger (from the Face It series)


Barbara Kruger (Super Rich • Ultra Gorgeous • Extra Skinny • Forever Young)