While at face value, loneliness may seem like a simple concept, it’s actually more complicated. While most people assume it involves a person just being alone and not surrounded by others, this is a simplistic and incorrect view of loneliness. Many people enjoy being alone (particularly introverts) and don’t have feelings of loneliness in such situations, and there are also people who are surrounded by others but still feel hopelessly lonely.
At an emotional and bonding level, loneliness is isolation, lack of connection to others that is both present and continuing. Loneliness is known to have deleterious effects on mental and physical health, but it’s also proved as inspiration for many of the major accomplishments in science and mathematics, as well as for artistic and musical creation.
Photography can capture the sensations of loneliness, by featuring single objects or concepts, but they can also be more complex:
Getting old By Fadly Hj Halim
treee By Julia Su
memories By Christoph Hessel
in black out By Codrin Lupei
Morning fog in the forest By Guillermo Carballa
Alone By Hidden-target
Alone… By SHA-1
alone in the dark By Nico Ouburg
Alone By Antonio longobardi
Only you know me… By Mal Smart
Alone By MrBadger
Somewhere By Guillermo Carballa
alone…all by myself By David Sebben
Despair By Alexandre Buisse
alone By mujdat ok
May It Be By Jan Machata
Alone in the rain … By **R**
Walking alone By BarbarShadow
expectations alone By hidlight
Alone By darkHunTer2009
alone pine tree on the rocks By Sergey IT
alone. By zeit204
No one will see us By Antonio longobardi
Alone in the Dark By David Postatny
Long train runnin´ By Guillermo Carballa
alone with the life. By leingad
Alone in This By Oer-Wout
Everyone Alone By CaGaTaYGENCAY
Without you By Daria Endresen
Down to the river to pray By Caras Ionut