Photographer Flora Maclean collaborates with Refinery29 to change the way mental health looks online
Always one to push positive and inclusive attitudes to mental health, Refinery29 have released a new series of images with photographer Flora Maclean, with the aim to reframe how mental health issues are visualised online.
Born out of a frustration with ‘depression stock images’ being mostly populated by white males, the Refinery29 design and photo team – led by Art Director Anna Jay – decided to commission a series of mental health-related stock images to use globally across the R29 sites.
Beginning by setting up an anonymous survey with an aim to get to the root of how mental health issues make their readers feel, they collated the responses of words and phrases that summed up their audiences mental health experiences and went about putting these into sensitive and respectful visual representations with the help of Flora Maclean.
See the full project here
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