Richard Kern: Medicated

My name is Faye and Im 18 I take 15 mgs of Adderall extended release I started taking them last year when I was 17 Ive always had like problems in school behavioral problems and Ive had problems in class but I was on my last year of high school soI was doing really badly so my mom and I thought that we should like finally go to a psychiatrist and get something for me to like push me through Like it wasnt the most intense examination he was like so if I didnt have this problem I could still go in and lie about it Like I just told him what was wrong with me and he just prescribed me something Like I couldve been lying I said that I cant pay attention in class Im really disorganized and I also went to him for anxiety too cause I have really bad anxiety and I feel like my attention and anxiety go like hand in hand

Richard Kern photographer and filmmaker remains first and foremost a portraitist For more than two decades Kern has sought to unravel and illuminate the complex and often darker sides of human nature Kern makes the psychological space between the sitter photographer and audience his subject

English
88 pages
225 _ 32 cm
ISBN 9789493146518