Mal gut, mehr schlecht.

How can you imagine depression? Photographer Nora Klein tried to visualize exactly that with her photo project. To do this, she worked with nine people affected. The result is impressive recordings that want to make the invisible visible. In an interview with BRIGITTE.de, Nora explains individual photographs ...

The photographer Nora Klein has found a form of expression that goes beyond words and conveys how depressed people experience the disease. For one and a half years she was in a trusting exchange with those affected. A project in words and pictures

Nora Klein and her work „Mal gut, mehr schlecht.“ is presented at german radio station Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

The exhibition CRAZY – Living with mental illness presents works by five internationally renowned photographers. They have dealt with the subject for very personal reasons.

The exhibition CRAZY – Living with mental illness presents works by five internationally renowned photographers. They have dealt with the subject for very personal reasons.

The number one widespread disease is depression. Nora Klein is a photographer from Erfurt and has dedicated herself to exactly this topic. In a talk with Andrea Ludwig, she tells how exciting but also how difficult it was to make depression visible in photos ...

Lecture by Nora Klein, freelance photo artist from Erfurt, at the symposium of the FESTIVAL FOTOGRAFISCHER BILDER REGENSBURG on October 23, 2020 in the event hall Leerer Beutel, Regensburg.

"Ms. Klein and Ms. Fröhlich succeeded in taking the audience on an absolutely impressive journey into the vulnerability of the soul, but also into its resilience and source for self-discovery and healing. Photographs, drawings and diary entries presented by project participants met with dismay among the audience and at the same time generated an understanding of the multi-layered "faces" of a depression."
Marion Schorn / Pro Anima Haltern am See

"An evening here in the Christophsbad that will remain in my fondest memories. Very honest, open, impressive ... "
Prof. Dr. Nenad Vasić, Medical Director of the Christophsbad Clinic

»Thank you for the complexity in the presentation and in the discussion that followed. I learned a lot and understood a little more. "
Prof. Dr. Marita Sperga (graduate psychologist), Vice President of the University of Applied Sciences Kiel

When depression darkens the soul, psychotherapy may help more patients than any medication. ...

A courageous publishing project: Who would buy a (photo) book about depression? Who enjoys reading about the psychiatric depths of people? ...

Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Wolff and Vincent van Gogh may have suffered from it, but depression reached daily life long ago. In Western Europe, the so-called sunny side of life, millions of people are facing darkness 24 hours a day…

Nora Klein has accompanied sufferers of depression and taken photos of them for many years. They are not classical portraits, but photos which convey feelings…

“Some good, more bad” is the title of the photo book by Erfurt photographer Nora Klein that aims to portray an invisible disease – depression.

The photo does not reveal much. The blinds are almost closed. Just a few delicate light spots invade the darkness. A black hole that swallows life. That is how a sufferer describes his depression…

Depression is omnipresent. However, for those not affected, psychiatric illness remains abstract with symptoms hardly visible from the outside. During bad times, depressives become reclusive, cannot communicate nor explain how they feel. “The body and soul shut down. They stand still. Depression is much like a winter sleep,” Mareike says…

Creases in the sheets: signs of a life lived – much like wrinkles around the eye.
One has seen something. One hasn’t slept well. Tossed and turn, moved the body, shifted it and turned it over – in the morning the sheet had crumpled. Hadn’t had the time to flatten it. Saw no sense in it. Why flatten it? To feel that things are in order?...

Fruit blossom, resembling a flourishing life, extend from the top of the photo. But then a dull sky runs below, between the delicate flowers and winter-dead tree tops – insurmountably…

The photographer Nora Klein puts a face to the experience of depression.
Nora Klein has been particularly touched by the openness of those who took part. “I was very impressed with the openness with which they shared their most intimate emotions and experiences.”