thing that they see. They don’t even see the person.”
This timeworn social problem — the refusal or inability to see beyond a person’s disability — is the subject of a new series by Waterloo-based photographer Hilary Gauld-Camilleri, owner of. Her new campaign, “More to Me,” aims to shift the way people look at those who have Down syndrome. Gauld-Camilleri’s images might look stylistically familiar. Each photo in the series, which is timed to Canadian Down Syndrome Week, is meant to evoke the way a photographer might shoot a celebrity for the cover of a lofty, glossy magazine.
With each photo that she took, Gauld-Camilleri asked the families to provide a stereotype that they felt still existed about people with Down syndrome. Many of the families reported the same myth: that people with Down syndrome are always happy. When Jamie got his diagnosis, Richard immediately began searching for resources. She wanted to know more about what the diagnosis meant, and was eventually referred to Gauld-Camilleri, who had, a few years before, produced a full calendar that captured humanizing portraits of members of the WRDSS.
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