Photographer John William Keedy’s photo series It’s Hardly Noticeable demonstrates various aspects of anxiety- he has suffered from an anxiety disorder himself for nearly a decade. Each photo is an intriguing and insightful example of one who has to live with anxiety, as well as underlying pain and struggle that goes along with a life like this.
The series serves as an amazing presentation to non-anxiety sufferers the unique struggle we face, yet it also challenges what ‘normal’ behavior is all about, too: “Is it possible for a society to have a commonly held idea of what is normal, when few individuals in that society actually meet the criteria for normalcy?” -John William Keedy
It’s Hardly Noticeable explores the world of a character who navigates living with an unspecified anxiety-based mental illness. He negotiates situations constructed to highlight the impacts and implications of his differences on his thoughts and behaviors, and by doing so raises question of normalcy. Through constructed tableaus and metaphorical still lifes, the series reveals the relationship between reality and perception, and highlights issues of pathology while questioning stereotypes of normalcy.
