It’s going to be okay (one day) is a zine produced by Valentina Albino and supported by Photograd.

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Format, binding: Softcover, perfect bound

Dimensions: 210x148mm / 8.3×5.8″

Printing and paper: 350gsm silk cover, 130gsm silk pages

It’s going to be okay (one day) explores the concept of chronic pain: a constant and intangible pain, often invisible in medical scans such as MRI and CT scans. Influenced by my own experience as a chronic migraine sufferer since the age of seven, this project investigates the psychological aftermath of this condition taking the viewer through an introspective journey into the emotional states of the sufferer. As, in most of the cases, an absence of tissue damage occurs in the patients, the lack of imagery strongly affects them in a psychological way. The lack of an actual trace of their pain was the main motivation that encourages me to find a narrative aiming to re-build an alternative medical record for chronic pain sufferers. This self publication is composed by multiple materials such as medical tests, pain rating scales, MRI imagery, archive photographs over the last year, and advertising. In fact, ads can amplify the false imaginary of being a sufferer and increase the discrepancy between sufferers and non-sufferers’ perception of pain. Overall, the work reflects the idea of a diary in which the sufferers are finally in charge to tell their own story. This specific narrative allowed me to give a physical and tangible shape to my invisible illness. These photographs become the medium to visualise pain as a concrete and tangible entity to others, and to the sufferer first. The act of sharing these photographs and their intrinsic pain arose in myself a desire to encourage sufferers to share and manifest their feelings.