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Depressed, Then Photography Saved Him, Zaria, Nigeria

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0:00A: You know, for me, I was like, okay, so long as I wasn’t doing, uh, what wasn’t making me sad, then I’m fine. Because I remember when I started, it was a whole different drama. Or initially, the reason why I started, uh, well, I was in school, I was depressed, I was sad. I was stuck between moments where I became a little bit suicidal and You know, those kind of moments. And then hardly go out, hardly talk to people. I was just in my feelings because I felt I lost purpose, right? So in that course of finding purpose, I found photography. And when I found photography, it was more like go out, take pictures of flowers, trees, you know, the clouds, etc., etc. And I noticed that this brings like really bright light into my life. And then when I went

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