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"Immersed: Our Experience With Autism": Parents' Photos & Narratives of Autistic Children
Exactly a month ago, I wrote about Bruce Hall, an exceptionally talented legally blind photographer who is very well known for underwater photography and various other photography related work. His work has been published in various textbooks and magazines, and recently, The Library of Congress bought some of his work for its permanent collection. Over the last decade or so, Bruce and his wife Valerie, who holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and has been involved in education for over 20 years, have been busy documenting the lives of their two autistic sons through photographs (Bruce) and text chronicles (Valerie). While doing so, they have made it evident that they are both very involved in their sons’ lives. Bruce’s photos of the boys are up close and personal, capturing some great emotions at the right moments – anger, happiness, excitement, or just simple observation of their surroundings. Bruce’s photos are accompanied by Valerie’s narratives which are very candid and very well explained. She does an extremely good job of detailing the emotions of her boys, their surroundings and the circumstances under which the photos were taken in a very simple yet clear-cut manner, thus adding more clarity to the photos [...]
Venkat Rao