Haunting portraits of the developmentally disabled in a gallery show.
- added March 11, 2008
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Disturbing, haunting, beautiful and ugly. One can't take your eyes off the subjects. They are extraordinary pictures, almost like classical fashion photographs. The photographer so humanizes their pain. It's like he captured their souls in tortured pose.
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Something about this rubbed me the wrong way. They are human beings just like the rest of us & yeah, we should treat them with the same respect & humanity that we would want othters to treat us with... but I don't see the validity of using them as subjects. Just because they have diabilities doesn't mean they should all be lumped into the same category, like we should pity each & every one of them because of their differences; likewise, why give praise to someone merely photographing them? I'm pretty sure the real accolades should be directed at the folks in the pictures. They're the true artists here.
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- skatherine
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