Photoshoot: The Face of Grief

Every once in a while you come across something that physically stops you in your tracks.

Something that knocks the wind out of you.

Something that resonates with you.

I was playing on the internet today at lunch when I came across this Stefano Galuzzi photoshoot from the 2010 Spring/Summer issue of Grey magazine.

The model, the stunning Georgina Stojiljkovic, looks absolutely devastated.   

Tortured.   

Empty.  

Alone.

These images depict exactly what I feel like every day.

My relationship with the love of my life ended on June 1^st. 

With each passing day it becomes a little easier to move forward.   

To let go.

I continue to live my life. I work. I spend time with the people that love and care about me.  I focus on the things that bring me joy. 

But this is what I feel like.

Grief and emptiness...

"Better never to have met you in my dream 

than to wake and reach for hands that are not there." 

-  Otomo No Yakamochi

Photoshoot Details
Model: Georgina Stojiljkovic
Photographer: Stefano Galuzzi
Stylist: Roxane Danse
Grey magazine, Spring 2010