Desolate

Depression is an illness often overlooked, youth raised under safe and privileged circumstances rarely take their struggles as seriously as they should, and even when they do, cries for help often go misheard under the pretense of

“teenage hormones.”

However, when this photo is backlit all the layers of media build up to create a halo effect around the figure, to simulate the idea that regardless of how devastating depression can be, there is always a hope and a bright mind in waiting.