Surrealist photographer Gabriel Isaac: the inner portrayal of depressed patients

"In the long darkness, you are my only light." -Keigo Higashino's White Night

Birds, oceans, smog and a large blue background ..... these are the core elements that appear repeatedly in the works of Swedish photographer Gabriel Isak after 1990s. In surreal photography, he has been focusing on shooting another world that cannot be clearly expressed in words.

Nine years ago, Gabriel Isak, who was 18 years old, suffered from depression, and he started photography at almost the same time. Through photography, he escaped to the world he created. In that gloomy, dark and even weird world, he felt the joy of freedom.

Gabriel Isak said that when he was ill, he felt like a dark cloud.

Birds, oceans and smoke are Gabriel Isaac's life. He thinks that many characters in the photos symbolize our own inner world and unconscious state.

But a few months after suffering from depression, he fell into depression again, and his psychological boredom made him give up photography for a time. His enthusiasm for photography was rekindled until he pulled himself together to fight depression. Later, he created more personal works, such as Rescue, Escape and Blu-ray.

Gabriel Isaac pays more attention to how to express his ideas in his works than equipment and technology. Before the official shooting, he made it clear what kind of scene he wanted to create, and then expressed human feelings and thoughts abstractly and metaphorically with various symbols.

Isaac regards photography as another statement of soul experience. Inspired by dreams, psychology and other surreal arts, he explored his potential inner world.

Photography finally got Gabriel Isaac out of depression. He wrote on Instagram: The first thing I learned this year was, "There is no end, only a new beginning."

Let's emphasize it anyway. If there are signs of depression, we must pay enough attention to it and treat it in time.