#photographing depression

In October of 2015, I contracted Spinal Viral Meningitis. I caught this disease after photographing in a Louisiana swamp. I was not wearing any type of mosquito spray so there were around 200 bites over my body. Two days later, I fell ill. After two spinal taps, I was airvac-ed to Oschner’s Baton

‘The Sea That Surrounds Us’ is a project by photographer Maureen Drennan that documents her husband’s battle with depression and her own battle to understand it. The name of the project is taken from a line from a love poem by Pablo Neruda called Night on the Island, a title that reflects the