We are taught, as men, to hold it together. To be steady. To keep whatever is breaking inside us firmly out of sight.

This project grew out of my own experience of that silence, that strange yet familiar gap between what is felt and what is ever actually said. These are not portraits of specific people. They are something closer to self-portraits of a condition: images of the male body as a site of hidden emotion, where what cannot be spoken finds a physical form.

Because the body keeps its own record. It holds what the mouth won't say, carries what the mind tries to forget. The feelings don't disappear. They just go somewhere we can't easily reach.

Each image is an attempt to make visible something that masculinity, by its own unwritten rules, insists must stay invisible.

According to Mind UK, the number of men feeling low increased at double the rate of women over the last decade. Many cases go undiagnosed. This project sits inside that silence.

If you need information about mental health support and services, visit Mind UK