The Alternative Viewfinder

going to try and be a bit more active on here again - who’s still around? 

Kit & Sophia album cover

“In my years of inpatient treatment I’ve seen that scars can in fact sometimes serve the purpose of “a cry for help”. I don’t understand why society devalues this. If cutting is the only way you feel seen or can out your pain I find this deeply tragic and worthy of sympathy rather than shaming someone. Although I’ve never deliberately self-harmed to “communicate”, I can understand why someone would do this. Whereas some people cut themselves for this, I for example go into social isolation and sit there alone “hoping someone will notice I’m gone”. It’s ridiculous to continue the fallacy that nobody is ever desperate to be heard or seen, and resorts to indirect forms of communication out of fear of rejection. If you have such little faith that someone will hear you or see you that cutting yourself seems like the only way, then isn’t that deserving of listening, rather than rejecting? What is wrong with a cry for help? I get deeply angered by this stigma on self-harm not only because of the “attention-seeking” element, but the stigma itself on “attention-seeking”. Since when is hiding your pain and doing everything alone the new norm to live by? Since when is it wrong to depend on others or to want others to understand you? I find this psychopathic." 

self-portraits born from stress

Do you see me seeing? 👀

❤️❤️

And even though I can see the skin on his back live up as I run my fingers over it, he doesn’t turn around.

It was 2AM when I first saw him. The darkest hour of the night, in my opinion. 2AM is when you start missing people. Start to question things. 2AM is when the monsters come out. And so he did.

That is soooo sweet! ❤️ I wish I had a gallery... If I ever get one you are hereby invited to the opening haha! And thanks again for the sweet words, they hit home every time. ✨

"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."

Thank you! ❤️ I mostly use Adobe Photoshop. Often I shoot my photos in RAW format and use the Camera Raw program, which I think often has an effect on my photos. As for mobile apps, I use VSCO a lot.

Evgeny, Moscow

Wow, you have no clue how much these messages mean to me, thank you!!! And in all honesty, half of the time I have no clue what I'm doing - just keep your camera at hand and capture what you find beautiful and I'm sure you can surpass me any day. ❤️✨