Photography Project

[Danny McAvoy]

I have been assigned a photography project and one of my tasks is to photograph something that makes me feel proud. The subject I have chosen for this task is Autism, mainly because it will make it easier to 'come out' as Autistic.

The problem is, I can’t think of a way to represent Autism in a photograph. Does anybody have any ideas?

 

[Lola_Daydream]

Maybe do a three in one photo, showing your eyes, then somehow displaying the different view of the world through your eyes as aspirin.
I picture eyes center picture, show left the different view of the social world, and right the different view through your special gift or abilities.

Also you could get even craftier in photo shop and show your eyes bottom center, and edit layer behind you to show a collage of images in your different view of the world from nuerotypical, and your gifts and special interests that you excel at.

 

[Naturalist]

Have you seen photomosaics? (If not, run a quick search online, there are lots of awesome examples) You could make a portrait of yourself from hundreds of images of the things that are meaningful to you as an autistic person.

It would be rather ambitious, but would definitely impress!

 

[Aspergirl4hire]

Wow. I might try doing that myself. I'm thinking about creative blur: something about mirrors and eyes, about seeing, not seeing, and not focusing--splitting up all the concepts for the visual forms of Asperger's (ie, if you have the form that is really, really sharp at seeing in pictures). And my mind's eye shows me that a black-and-white image would be a nice way to hint that Aspies like black-and-white; I've been told so often that I'm interesting to other people because "you see things in black-and-white." I can also see a triptych, three pictures to show that what I see in the mirror is not what other people see...