Mental Illness, Photojournalism and Internet: toward a more humanised and normalised image

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Rebeca Pardo Sainz

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The images of medical journals and the most traditional media had managed to create a stigmatizing iconography against which associations of patients and relatives manifest themselves. Social networks like Instagram, and blogs offer them a way, until recently almost impossible, that democratizes the possibility to represent and publish the daily life with mental illness, photojournalism included. A large number of these images are taken and shared by the own patients or their relatives, who face the coldness and supposed “objectivity” of the previous “scientific” representations with some snapshots that are more focused on the human beings and the senses behind these cases.

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Pardo Sainz, R. (2017). Mental Illness, Photojournalism and Internet: toward a more humanised and normalised image. AdComunica, 83–109. https://doi.org/10.6035/2174-0992.2017.13.6
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Rebeca Pardo Sainz, Universitat de Barcelona y Universitat Abat Oliba CEU

Rebeca Pardo Sainz [rebecapardo@ub.edu] es fotógrafa y profesora de fotografía en la UB y UAO CEU. Es licenciada en Comunicación Audiovisual, doctora en Bellas Artes y tiene un máster en Antropología. Ejerció como fotoperiodista y es autora del blog En la Retaguardia: Imagen, memoria e identidad, premio de ensayo de la Editorial Ariel. Es investigadora principal del proyecto Compartiendo el dolor y el duelo online.