Photographer Yvette Fenning shares her battle with depression and how creating a book of pet portraits helped

Yvette Fenning says she found strangers loved sharing stories about their pets. (Supplied: Yvette Fenning)

There was a time when Queensland photographer Yvette Fenning would sling her camera over her shoulder, hop on her bike and cry the whole ride to her next photo shoot.

She didn't dread the visits – just the opposite – photographing pets was the one hobby guaranteed to make her feel better amid the debilitating effects of depression.