‘I don’t know how to get better’: Laia Abril shows the hell of eating disorders

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The Spanish photographer’s sombre and affecting photobook The Epilogue tells the story of Cammy Robinson, who died at 26 as a result of bulimia

In 2010, Laia Abril started a project on eating disorders with a multimedia piece called A Bad Day. It looked head-on at the daily life of a girl struggling with bulimia and was a wilfully uncomfortable experience. Out of that came a self-published ‘zine, Thinspiration, in which Abril documented the controversial Pro-Ana community which, in her words, "has turned anorexia (Ana) into its dogma" and where activists "venerate the illness giving meaning to their totalitarian ‘lifestyle’."

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SOURCE: Eating disorders | The Guardian – Read entire story here.

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