World Mental Health Day
On the 10th October, or World Mental Health Day, we are delighted to be hosting an innovative exhibition by University of Leeds PhD student, Penn Smith. Having been granted ‘Leeds for Life’ funding for her project, we are lucky enough to delve into her research with her, right here in the LUU Foyer!
The project provides interesting insight into how photography can be used as a way to explore severe mental health conditions in a really personal and productive way. The exhibition is called ‘A picture of mental health’: Exhibition of photos by service users and staff at an innovative rehabilitation and recovery service, and hopes to provoke conversation about how best to support people with severe and enduring mental health needs, predominantly psychosis.
We wanted to break this great project out of the confines of just the service users, and get students to think about what an image can evoke in others, and get talking about mental health in whatever way makes them feel heard.
On the day, we’ll have stalls and information from loads of great services around Leeds, and an opportunity to get involved yourself or as part of a society.
With 10th October as the start date, we want you guys to submit your photos under the themeː Being a student in 2018.
Whatever that means to you, we want to see it!
Our favourites will be printed and collated into lovely photo albums for people to look through while taking a break in our foyer, and those that don’t quite make the books could end up on our Instagram. Even more details of how and what to submit below.
We look forward to seeing all your submissions!
What to Submit
To get your image in the display books, they’ll need to be of a good quality for print. File sizes are usually large (anywhere between 2MB — 30MB). If the file size is listed in KB, it most likely isn’t big enough!
Some images taken on phones may be large enough if sent at highest setting (some ask what size you want to send the image) but we would have to judge based on what comes through whether it would print well or not.
Photos submitted for Instagram need to be of a decent quality but we don’t need to be so strict as above.
How to Submit
Use #HelloLeeds to get involved on social media, but make sure if you want it to go in the display books you send it in to our lovely marketing team at unimarke@leeds.ac.uk
