HAJNImagery
The Mental Health Photographer
STIGMA
Self-portrait
Some of the images can be triggering to the eyes an through them, to the soul. Be gentle to yourself and have a break. They’ll be here, waiting for your return when you are ready.
With love and appreciation, Hajni
“You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared and anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a negative person. It makes you human.”
- Lori Deschene
ANOREXIA NERVOSA
Special Effect HMUA: Jade Harding
Model: Reece Batten
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
- Winston Churchill
PMDD
Self-portrait
“Tears fall for a reason and they are your strength not weakness.”
- Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
CHILDREN TOO
Model: Tamas (my son)
“I was made to be tested and twisted
I was made to be broken and beat
I was made by His hand, it's all part of His plan
That I stand on my own two feet”
- Ren Gill, ‘Hi Ren’
EYES ON ME (Social Anxiety)
Self-portrait
BURNOUT
Self-portrait
JUST DO IT! (part of whole image)
Self-portrait (...and self-reflection of my ADHD)
“We get so worried about being pretty.
Pretty funny.
Pretty smart.
Pretty strong.”
— Britt Nicole
BULIMIA NERVOSA
Special Effect HMUA: Natasha Bryant
Model: Emily McCall
“The biggest thing holding you back is almost always…
...you.
Start there.”
- Hunter Post
SELF-SABOTAGE
Self-portrait
“And I go by many names also
Some people know me as "hope"
Some people know me as the voice that you hear
When you loosen the noose on the rope
And you know how I know that I'll prosper?
'Cause I stand here beside you today
I have stood in the flames that cremated my brain
And I didn't once flinch or shake
So cower at the man I've become, when I sing from the top of my lungs
That I won't retire, I'll stand in your fire, inspire the weak to be strong
And when I am gone, I will rise, in the music that I left behind
Ferocious persistent, immortal like you, we're a coin with two different sides”
- Ren Gill, ‘Hi Ren’
BIPOLAR DISORDER
Special Effect HMUA: Claire Cox
Model: Reece Batten
“ADHD is having the day off and thinking of 1,000 ways to enjoy it, deciding on none of those, and laying frozen by your own inability to choose an activity.”
- Rene Brooks
THE TREE OF LIFE AND POSSIBILITIES
Self-portrait (...and self-reflection of my ADHD)
MASKING
Self-portrait
“I knew well enough that one could fracture one’s legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.”
- Vincent van Gogh
FLOAT
Model: Tara Rose Szafarz
Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention.
Don't look for quick results; there may be none within your noticing. Unknown to you, your psyche will undergo a change; there will be more clarity in your thinking, charity in your feeling, purity in your behavior.
You need not aim at these - you will witness the change all the same. For, what you are now is the result of inattention and what you become will be the fruit of attention.
BRAINFOG
Model: Tara Rose Szafarz
“There is a lot of misunderstanding, and I feel like there’s a lot of people out there who think that it’s not real, that it’s not true, that it is something that is made up in their mind… It’s something that’s completely uncontrollable, and it’s really painful, and it’s really scary, and women need a lot of support.”
– Hayden Panettiere
POSTPATRUM/POSTNATAL DEPRESSION
Special Effect HMUA: Becky Cameron
Model: Mari Kerrigan
“You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
– Louise Hay
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EXPECTATIONS VS REALITY
Self-portrait
