{"id":166982,"date":"2025-06-08T07:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T07:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166982\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T07:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T07:02:10","slug":"photojournalist-ed-gold-says-mental-health-project-was-toughest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166982\/","title":{"rendered":"Photojournalist Ed Gold says mental health project was toughest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Gold hoped empowering people to speak about their difficulties in real time would give others a greater understanding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Lampard Inquiry has been looking at deaths in Essex, but the photographer said lessons should be learned before people died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His interviews focused on 15 men and 15 women, aged 13-39, and took place in Colchester, Clacton-on-Sea and Braintree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was moved to tears once or twice from various stories; it&#8217;s probably been the toughest project I&#8217;ve ever taken on,&#8221; said Mr Gold, who has also taken photos in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It also gave me a huge frustration because I found so many people were being let down.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Gold hoped empowering people to speak about their difficulties in real time would give others a greater&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-166982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114646466126229696","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}