Photographs Archive Intimate Moments of Family with Mental Illness

Photographer Lisa Lindvay documents a family’s life and home after it is transformed by her mother’s mental illness. Each image symbolizes the loss and decay that the family encounters when left without its matriarch. The haunting series provides an intimate and uncomfortable look at this family’s hardship, while also artfully archiving this particular moment in their lives.

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