bryce_evans

<p>Hi Everyone! <br /><br />I'm excited to join this community and wanted to share part of my story in how photography saved my life. I hope that you can relate or find some value in it, and what I'm working on now.<br /><br /></p> <em>If you'd like to save time, you can watch my <a href=" talk</a> and our recent <a href="https://www.facebook.com/vicecanada/videos/1334325029921390/">VICE documentary</a> below.</em> <p><br />About 6 years ago, I was going through severe depression and anxiety and didn't know how to talk about it at all. I was silent and didn't really know what I was going through or have the words to express it.<br /><br />As I started getting more into photography, I eventually began to let it all out through my photos and these stories that I created from them, eventually creating a photo series titled “one”.<br /><br />This was the first photo and story.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.filepicker.io/api/file/tfBYa7k4ROexRA1N8bFZ" alt="" data-url="https://www.filepicker.io/api/file/tfBYa7k4ROexRA1N8bFZ" /><br /><br /></p> <em>Lone(ly) Surfer<br /><br />Globalization has enabled developed nations access to an incredible choice in careers, lifestyles, and activities. We live in a society where you can do anything, anywhere. We find activities that bring us joy in solitude, but it fails to fill the void in our psyche that longs for companionship.</em> <p><br />Long story short, I developed a series of 10 photos and stories through a set of techniques (that I created unconsciously) as I continued to work through this process. After a year, I posted it to Facebook and came to realize that so many others were silently struggling with these issues and almost no one was talking about how photography can help. <br /><br /><img src="https://www.filepicker.io/api/file/kBRLcl2lQDKVNZCfJI7v" alt="" data-url="https://www.filepicker.io/api/file/kBRLcl2lQDKVNZCfJI7v" /></p> <em>Lost & Looking For Direction<br /><br />It is the point in our lives where we must decide who we are and what we are going to do, graduation, a change in career, or a relocation to a new place. We are constantly learning who we are and how we fit into the big picture; never lost, just always looking for direction.</em> <p><br />It was this process with my photos that allowed me to overcome severe depression and anxiety — I'm not sure where I'd be without it.<br /><br /><strong>So I decided to pursue this vision further and create <a href="https://www.theoneproject.co/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The One Project</a> </strong>- the photography community for people suffering from depression and anxiety. <br /><br /><img src="https://www.filepicker.io/api/file/QvQqbLx3SomhB3sgJkBy" alt="" data-url="https://www.filepicker.io/api/file/QvQqbLx3SomhB3sgJkBy" /></p> <em>The Lavish Facade<br /><br />We all try to buy happiness at one point or another. Building up a lavish facade of wealth and material items to attempt to cover up our feelings of loneliness. It is not what we own or how we appear that matters in this life; it is happiness and acceptance that are the ultimate goals. Seek fulfillment from your relationships and experiences, rather than from material items.</em> <p><br />We help you learn how therapeutic photography techniques can help you better express, understand and eventually overcome these issues with a private online platform and <a href="https://course.theoneproject.co/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">online courses</a>.<br> <strong>I'd love to hear your story if you can relate or have felt the healing power of photography in your own life! <br /></strong><br />p.s. If you're interested in learning more about therapeutic photography, you can <a href="https://theoneproject.clickfunnels.com/webinar-registration" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sign up for my next free webinar.</a></p>