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Suicide Girlsby `hakanphotography

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Model: Natsumi

This photograph is not supposed to be glamour, beauty or cool, but this is a fact of life in Japan that so many young people have tried to commit suicide one time or another. As outsiders, we see Japan as a very happy place but if you go deeper into their lifestyle you would meet lots of people who are mentally ill and depressed. During my 3 months stay in Japan I have met 6 people in person who had cut marks on their wrists and I have seen many many others in the streets.

Well, they are the REAL Suicide Girls, sadly.

Her story: The person whom she loved and shared everything disappeared one day with all the money in her bank account that she worked very hard to save. She was a beautician for Shiseido. So all of a sudden she had zero in her bank account . She got into a depression and moved back in with her family. At the time I met her, she was in town to make a police report for the 3rd time for the guy who fleed with her money. They couldn't find him. After she got sick , she lost her job, the doctors prevented her to work, she lost so much weight, at the time she was 34kgs. She had a big bottle of Shochu ( a Japanese alcoholic drink ) in her hand and was drinking in the afternoon the first time I met her in a park. She talked to me. She showed me her old photos where she looked so different and happy. We became good friends later on. But now I lost contact with her, she has disappeared as well. She was 24 years old.

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Suicide Girls by `hakanphotography

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( Suggested by ~DanielleWick and Featured by `Timothy-Sim )

~RayneHale Nov 23, 2011

I'm crying. This is so so sad. But it's really great artwork.

~dancincow161 Mar 2, 2011

So, so sad. Despite her disappearing, you've managed to capture her soul here. And absolutely beautifully!

~FunKy-bUdhA Mar 1, 2011 Professional Photographer

zor be dostum.. bu hayat çoklarına pek zor...

~Maggy-lOvi-lOvE Feb 4, 2011

u.u oh vamos yo se bien que en este mundo muchas veces pareciera que no hay salida y que todo se esta llendo a la mierda, pero tu tienes tu propia vida y eso es algo que ni un millon de guerras o diez mil tormentas te va a quitar!! el puro hecho de estar vivo deberia ser suficiente para sentirte inmensamente feliz

no importa que a tu alrededor haya tanto dolor y desesperación, si tu te puedes mantener en pie y sonreir el mundo es un lugar mejor ;D .....fuera de eso y despues de mi discurso motivacional esta es una genial imagen, representa mucho del actual Japon n.n

~shakeitdry Dec 2, 2010

thank you so much for sharing this. i keep telling kids that it's not cool or pretty. they don't listen

~DanielleWick Nov 17, 2010

I'm using a thumbnail of this to feature this piece here: [link]

Thank you for the inspiration!

!BabyAnnaM Nov 11, 2010

im so sorry you lost contact....

~LordOfPastries Nov 1, 2010 Hobbyist General Artist

so beautiful and heartbreaking.

~IngramSIZZ Nov 1, 2010

terrifying, and she's such a beautifull girl!

~8spyroncynder8 Nov 1, 2010

Suicide is sad, just sad. :C

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