The Rolling Exhibition

I like stories. I like photography. I like photographs that tell stories. Kevin Connolly has one heck of a story to tell. Kevin was born without legs. He gets around just fine, typically preferring a skateboard to a wheelchair. Wherever he goes, though, he attracts a fair degree of attention. People stare. One day, Kevin decided to stare back. With a camera. The picture that resulted was more interesting than he had planned, and it spurred Kevin onto a massive project. He ended up touring 15 countries and taking over 30,000 pictures of people staring. The results said very little about a man with no legs, and a whole lot about humanity. The stares were essentially the same no matter where he went. But the stories that people built were very different. Some assumed he was a war veteran, some saw him as a holy man, other saw a beggar. Our commonality and our cultural differences both emerge from the same collection of photos. An excellent article on Kevin the Christian Science Monitor can be found here. And his gallery can be found here. Check it out.