Max Lancaster's Photo Series 'Bunny And I' Documents Cousin's Schizophrenia with Sensitivity

London-based photographer Max Lancaster has released a new photo series titled 'Bunny And I,' a delicate documentary exploring his cousin Bunny's experience with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The project avoids cinematic clichés of mental instability, instead capturing Bunny's daily life—his day-drinking, notebook-filling, and hearing the voice of God—with quiet sensitivity. Lancaster initially photographed Bunny straightforwardly, then created patchwork mosaics from printed photos to represent Bunny's multifaceted personality. The series highlights the likenesses between family members, such as sharing their grandfather's laugh, and emphasizes attention over diagnosis or spectacle. Bunny's notebooks, filled with handwriting, drawings, and poetry, appear throughout the photographs, alongside toy cars, collaged diaries, religious books, and a framed dead moth. Lancaster, who had not seen Bunny in over fifteen years, was moved by coincidences like an antique model car appearing on Bunny's television identical to one he had given Lancaster. The project follows Lancaster's earlier work photographing life on a container ship.