Black Artists fight mental health stigma with their work

South London-based digital artist Kirsty Latoya is using her work to unpack the complexities of mental health. To create her art, the 25-year-old uses her finger as a stylus to draw on an iPad — a technique that creates compelling, contemporary work. 

Tsoku Maela — a photographer from Cape Town, South Africa — has been extensively recognized for his work documenting what it's like to live with mental illness through complex imagery. His recent photographic series, titled  Abstract Peaces , documents Maela's own experience with depression.