Steve Nicholls, Some Days Are Stone (PEOPLE 2023)

Not every day can be a diamond. Like all of us, Georgia has her ups and downs and is open about her struggle with mental health and how it wreaks havoc on her emotions. Fascinated with capturing her struggles in the form of a photographic portrait, we met many times over the span of a several months. During each conversational portrait session we would talk about whatever was going on in her life. Some days she was giddy with excitement, or laughing and joking about the week's events, or worried about some aspect of her career. But on this particular day, the sadness overtook her, and as the tears started to fall I made this portrait.

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