la fotografía como herramienta para retratar el trastorno bipolar

Abstract

The present work entitled "photography as a tool to portray bipolar disorder", seeks through photography to capture the different changes in the mood of a person who suffers from this disease. Throughout history we find that photography has been used as a documentary medium but from a certain time photography began to be seen as art, thus capturing different social problems, as in the case of Laura Hospes she took a self-portrait and expressed her emotions, as She was recovering little by little, photography was her means to accept and process the many struggles in her life in her process of mental disorder. Also, the photographer Magali Agnello took her photographs in black and white and in color. The photographer suffered from bipolar disorder. In his photographs he represents his change of mood that he suffered day by day, this is at an international level, however, in Ecuador there are still great exponents of artistic photography, such as Carlos Rivadeneira Cruz, who began to see photography as something beautiful, beginning thus to make portraits of women, using retouching for their final photographs. The art of photography is taken as a means of expression where thoughts, feelings and emotions can be reflected that are transmitted to the exporters, just as the camera used is the same as the brush and the canvas, here it does not depend on the camera but rather the photographer, what we want to convey, because the idea of the work will prevail as it was captured at the time. The artistic work addresses the problem by showing cases of bipolar disorder where it describes in a general way about photography, its characteristics, and the branches of photography which allow the creation of the work to be made. To carry out the work, 3 steps were needed, the first of pre-production where each photo of the coins and the model was planned in detail, this will use facial expressions to characterize the different states of a bipolar person ranging from depression to episodes maniacs. With the planning carried out, we proceeded to the execution where everything required for the final stage was photographed, which is the editing, where we were able to place the model inside each coin with the help of editing applications. The fourth chapter addresses the conclusions, where the experiences and technical recommendations on the research work are considered.