Natalie Finney, Grief - The Abridged Version (Portrait 2020)

From a personal project titled ‘Grief – The Abridged Version’, these portraits explore the commonly misunderstood concept of the ‘five stages of grief’, popularised in the 1980’s as a linear roadmap on how to navigate through loss of a loved one. This series seeks to challenge the notion that grief progresses through a series of delineated stages and depicts the theory as an oversimplification of what is very much a uniquely individual process. These portraits form part of the complete series of 5 images, these here titled ‘Part 1 – Denial’, ‘Part 3 – Bargaining’ and ‘Part 4 – Depression’.

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