PHOTOVOICES is a collaborative participatory photographic exhibition exploring the experience of having a mental illness in the Midlands of Ireland in 2017.

This body of work is the outcome of a collaboration between the HSE Mental Health Occupational Therapy Services in Mullingar and Longford, Mullingar Mental Health Association, and visual artist Rosaleen Heavin, with all collaborators taking an equal participatory role along with Mental Health Service users in exploring through the camera lens how mental health is actually experienced from the differing perspectives.

PHOTOVOICES uses the camera lens as a means of social engagement through which to examine how the participants feel we as a contemporary community regard mental illness,, seeking to create awareness and reflecting to the viewer, different perspectives and responses, questioning attitudes and preconceptions and asking have attitudes really changed.

The Atrium,
Mullingar,
Co. Westmeath