Showing posts with label Denis Darzacq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Denis Darzacq. Show all posts

Friday, April 20, 2012

Meditations on the Disabled Body


"Physically and psychologically disabled people still aren’t very well accepted in society,” says photographer Denis Darzacq. “And this is a situation that artists have to take care of."


You can read more about this exhibition HERE.


My blogger friend Chrissy of Silver Fin of Hope sent me the link to this article, and when I scrolled through the photographs I was both drawn in by their intent and beauty and then repelled by an intimation of exploitation. I still haven't parsed out that intimation -- was it because I wondered if the souls that were photographed were truly aware of themselves or were, rather, revealed by the photographer? 


What do you think?


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