Photographer Jillian Edelstein’s long-term project addresses male mental health through a simple question ‘What is your worst fear?’
While mentoring underprivileged youth at north London’s Arsenal Football Club in 2016, I noticed regular and alarming newspaper reports about the deaths of local young men in knife-related stabbings and high levels of male suicide.
I talked to the young men about childhood issues, such as absent fathers, gangs, childhood poverty, a dearth of male role models and mental health issues. Existential issues relating to the “growing pains” of becoming an adult in challenging inner-city London was a common theme. And so the project Young Men, Worst Fears was born.
Gabriel Shelsky, 26, in 2017
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