About The Series
This section contains first person photo essays about living with bipolar disorder.
These pieces are reflective rather than immediate. They combine images and short written reflections, created with distance after the moment has passed. The focus is on patterns, recognition and atmosphere rather than explanation, advice or instruction.
These essays are not journalism, reviews or reporting. They sit alongside my cultural writing as a parallel form of authorship, one that uses photography to hold moments that are often difficult to articulate directly.
I’m interested in how images can register shifts in mood, energy and perception without needing to resolve them. Not every experience needs to be documented. When something appears here, it is because time has allowed it to settle into something worth sharing.
Colin Cushion 