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"If You Only Knew": seeing the unseen illness and the people who suffer from it

©Barb Kellogg. Used with permission.

"They say 'thank you' a lot," says photographer Barb Kellogg.

The creator of the If You Only Knew art exhibit (formerly titled What Mental Illness Feels Like: Images and Stories) on display at Zeitgeist through May 14, says her project of interviews and conceptual photography began after the loss of a friend to depression and suicide.

More than four years later, the exhibit and the book that will follow are the photographer's attempt to visually translate the experience of mental illness in a way people can relate to.

And it's having an unexpected benefit to the people who shared their stories with her.

Northland Healthy Mindsinvited Barb to bring her exhibit to Duluth as a part of the May observance of Mental Health Month.

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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