Picturing Grief

Picturing Grief is a collaboration between the University of York's Department of Philosophy and Projecting Grief. It consists in a collection of images inspired by the Grief Survey: a rich, searchable database of first-person testimonies of grief gathered through an online qualitative survey.

The idea for Picturing Grief came out of a desire to visually communicate ideas about the experience of grief in an intriguing and appealing way. As well as being shared online, the images have been turned into flyers, postcards and coasters and left in places where people might stumble across them them - for example, counselling services, churches, chaplaincies and hospices, but also bars, cafés, libraries and community centres. It is hoped that finding them will help grieving people and those who support them feel less alone, as well as prompt conversations about grief and loss.