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BIFA 2023

Look In The Mirror and Say I Love You

  • Photographer
    Jana Šantavá

Experts in the field of mental health of young people are currently encountering an increase in self-harm by up to 40% compared to the years before the pandemic. This photo is meant to encourage people with depression to look in the mirror, see themselves and say "I love you". It is a call to self-love and self-acceptance. Let's try to maintain healthy self-love and learn to distinguish between it and egocentrism.

I deal with  topics resonanting throughout society. Human rights, women´s rights and interpersonal relations inspire me tremendously. I often wonder where the mankind is heading and I do want to speak about it. I like to inspire the others to think about what state we will leave this world in for the next generations. Currently we are experiencing a crisis of human relationships. We lack tolerance, our lives are affected by algorithms, our true relationships are getting more fragile and painful.  We often aren't able to tell the go