Elise Snary
Photography has always given me a chance to express my emotions through imagery. After suffering from a trauma in my younger years I have been able to explore the subject of mental health and open viewers eyes to the roller coaster emotions that go with it and most importantly giving them a chance to talk. It also helped me to explore my own personal feelings and became a form of therapy, this in turn has allowed me to grow and made me a happier, stronger person. My photographs have been shared on social media and I have received a
Heavy
This piece explores the emotion of happiness within sadness, documenting the emotions in a dark period in my life this series encapsulates it in a poetic narrative.
Heavy
I used water as a symbolism as it can be found as a beautiful and calming environment however can also lead to mass destruction and be very dangerous, much like how mental health can be.
Heavy
Bound in a book, this series takes the viewer on a path of finding the beauty in the destructive, with some images of water looking like oil and some looking like outer-space.
Ethereal ~ Puck
This image is featured as part of a commissioned series that depicts Shakespeare's characters in an editorial fashion. Puck a mischievous fairy is from the story Midsummer Night's Dream.
Ethereal ~ Titania
This image is featured as part of a commissioned series that depicts Shakespeare's characters in an editorial fashion. Titania is the Queen of the Fairies from the story Midsummer Night's Dream.
Ethereal ~ Ophelia
This image is featured as part of a commissioned series that depicts Shakespeare's characters in an editorial fashion. Ophelia noblewoman from Denmark is from the story Hamlet