Photographer Helps Time Magazine Frame Teenage Depression

Lise Sarfati spent an hour with each of the cover story's three female subjects.

Teenage depression and anxiety are extremely worrisome topics. Parents, relatives, friends, classmates… we are all today reading and-or directly dealing with the increasing occurrence of this phenomenon.

For this week’s Time magazine cover story by Susanna Schrobsdorff about the topic, L.A.-based photographer Lise Sarfati spent an hour at home with each of the article’s three female subjects (two live in Maine, the other in California). In an accompanying behind-the-scenes piece by Time Lightbox writer Alexandra Genova, some interesting background on how Sarfati was set upon the trail is revealed:

Sarfati knew the context of the feature but was not told the girls’ full backstory prior to the shoot.

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