Fig. 1: Borensztein 2016. Sharon. [book]
Leon Borensztein focuses on documentary and psychological portraiture. His subjects, per instruction, don't smile. One of his life's work revolves around images of his daughter with disabilities. His focus is giving a voice to the 'unseen' (Borensztein [online]).
It's interesting as I looked at the interviews he had with such well known entities as Life Magazine, New York Times, and Huffington Post with most the articles titled about his project revolving around the love and devotion of his daughter (as featured in his book "Sharon" 2016). Then one article from an Austria newspaper called their article: "Sharon: Disturbing Family Album." That is quite a view shift from the other media interpretations.
Fig. 2 Slade 2018I also want to give voice to the unseen struggles of parents raising children facing opposition, but I relate more to Micheal Oliver who said, "Disabled people continue to be portrayed as more than or less than human, rarely as ordinary people doing ordinary things" (1990:61). I hope to portray these children in a state of ordinary childhood imagination.
Ordinary children, doing ordinary children things.
Figure 1. Leon BORENSZTEIN. 2016. Sharon. Kehrer Verlag. Available at: www.amazon.com [accessed March 2019]
Figure 2. Bren SLADE. 2018. Available at www.brenslade.com
BORENSZTEIN, Leon. [online]. Available online at: https://www.leonborensztein.com/ [accessed March 2019]
OLIVER, Michael. 1990. The Politics of Disablement. London: MacMillan Press.
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