20th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Artistic
Self-Destruction

I Struggled with a really bad eating disorder for about a year. Even if I wanted to eat I felt as though I couldn't and I felt like I was destroying my own body. Trying to find something to eat felt like an endless battle and brought me so much frustration. It was the most painful and mentally difficult thing I have ever gone through and I wanted to take a surrealist approach to depict the way I felt. It was so difficult and confusing I didn't know how to explain the feeling so I photographed it.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 05.2022
Date Uploaded: 11.2022
Photo Location: Vandalia, Ohio, United States of America
Camera: NIKON D7500
Copyright: © Ashlyn Haywood