#cerebralpasly

A photography series or project like this comes very near and dear to my heart, and it has been something that I have been wanting to do for a while but I'm not quite sure why I haven't done it yet. The project that I did similarly close to it is having photographed children with special needs at a nonprofit organization located in Fallbrook California. Looking back at those photographs it is so heavy on my heart and a good way because seeing those children brings me such absolute joy. It's just always reminded me of how much my sister means to me and how much I really miss her.

I think that's why I love to do that, capture photographs like this. I noticed growing up people don't understand what it's like to have somebody in your family with special needs so all they do is stare. It gets annoying sometimes and I feel like telling them to just take a picture because it would last longer than the amount of time that they sit there and stare. But that would be rude of me of course, But I can't help it If someone is just gawking all because they don't know any better or don’t know what's wrong with her, which I'm sure they are curious to know. But this other project that I have been wanting to do is to locate or contact a local school close to me, if not somewhere not too far and attempt to have a sit-down with the teachers and the students. That is a special needs class with special needs children in it, then arrange with them a day that I could come by to photograph the children in their home room or even better if they were to have some type of field trip coming up.

Of course I would do all of this after I have done the legwork of having a form signed by their parents making sure that it's okay to photograph them and to maybe potentially put that on my blog for others to see and to feel the warmth in those photographs. As mentioned there's nothing more that makes me happier than to see these kids even if it is at a random location, my husband thinks I'm weird and I try not to show too much interest in them when we are out in public because then I would just come off as a psycho or pedophile. But I can't help it if it makes me happy because it just reminds me so much of my younger sister. That is also why I finally found my calling to actually work with these kids In schools, I just need to pursue on the education and requirements to be able to do so but with this photography experience it's the best of both worlds. People really do not know what an impact these children could have, because they are just so happy and they know absolutely no wrong and have such pure untainted Soles.