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So you may or may not know that this year I received a grant to photograph 5 people with Asperger’s syndrome. Asperger’s is a form of high-functioning Autism (ever heard of ?) mainly characterized by difficulty with social interactions. They also have a tendency to fixate on certain topics or objects like scoreboards, or Ancient Egypt, or Steve Jobs. But now I’m just teasing you with hints of what’s to come, and that’s not fair. I will say that I have spent the last ten months with a group of some of the most interesting people I have ever had the pleasure to come across. I can’t say enough how grateful I am to my photo subjects who have given me their time, their energy, and their privacy. Letting someone with a big, no-nonsense-looking camera into your world is never an easy thing and they all did it with grace and heart.
Want to see more? Well the lovely folks over at have offered up a home for this labor of love. Street Roots is a non-profit newspaper that deals with issues of poverty and social justice. You know those homeless folks outside of Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods who are trying to sell you a paper for a buck? That’s the one. The project is basically running from Thanksgiving until Christmas, with three print editions showing up on November 25, December 9th, and December 23rd. In between, two photo slideshows with some amazing first-person audio accounts of life with Asperger’s will be on the , look for them December 2nd and 16th.
I also have to give a high-five to , the Regional Arts and Council Culture. They are the money men behind this project and it’s a pretty amazing thing to have an organization in Portland dedicated solely to the funding and advocacy of the arts. It’s like we’re in Europe or something.
Photo Editor and Graphic Designer round out my list of Thanks Yous in this Oscar speech.
Leah has a passion for documenting the everyday and the extreme, which she often finds are one and the same. She holds a Master’s degree in photojournalism from the University of Missouri and in 2004 was awarded a Fulbright Grant to photograph the AIDS crisis in India. A year later she moved to Portland, OR to begin her freelance career.