When I wrote the “pain should never be an excuse, but a tool for you to create with“, it came to my mind several other artists who certainly had that concept in mind. Who lived and went through it.
Somehow there’s a universal attention to visualizing suffering humans, as if they’re therapeutically for the sane and healthy people. The World Press Photo is great on that, bringing the best of war and social photographers as witnesses of human suffering, in the most raw and brutal way, often in B/W, which emphasizes the pain concept even more.
In a parallel universe, the teenager’s photography often shows they’re own call for attention with fainted moody colour photographs of them, nose or knee bleeding as self-portraits. Some others go even further, and using the “suffering for the sake of art” would cut and create suffering situations to photograph their own statement in a lack of a better concept.
But let’s focus now on the “pain should never be an excuse but a tool for you to create with”, from those who were really in physical pain and used it as a scream to the world.