Temat: Interesting, that we promote diversity, yet stare at...

I read this at:

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/11/man-without-legs-r...

and thought it was interesting enough to share.

"Kevin Connolly was born without legs. It was a ’sporadic birth defect’. No event, chemical, accident or experiment caused the defect. It was just a twist of fate. But that has never stopped the average observer from drawing their own conclusions and creating scenarios to explain what they cannot comprehend while in the vicinity of Kevin.

During his travels, he has been mistaken for a Thalidomide victim, a beggar, a holy man, a magician and the victim of a shark attack. In reality he is a remarkable young man from Montana who never let what others would perceive as a handicap limit his ambitions.

He studies film and photography at Montana State University and, while perched upon the skateboard he uses for mobility, he has taken more than 32,000 photos of the stares he attracts during his travels across the world – 15 countries at last count."

http://therollingexhibition.com/

Temat: Interesting, that we promote diversity, yet stare at...

OK, it is rude to stare and stare and stare, but if you are generally aware of what is happening around you then you do look at things (survival instinct). A person with no legs rolling along on a skateboard is something that would make you do a double take.

I wonder if he waits for the people to look more than a couple of seconds before he snaps them...

Now that would make you look, a guy with no legs on a skateboard with a camera in his hands.Steven H. edytował(a) ten post dnia 17.04.08 o godzinie 22:26