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ON THE SPECTRUM
According to recent estimates, about 1% of people worldwide have been identified with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). In Europe about 6%, in North America about 9%, in Oceania about 5%. Variations might be partly due to differences in the detection, collection and processing of data. Within this “spectrum” there can be people with very different characteristics. For example, people who are very eloquent and people who are not able to talk, people who achieve high levels of excellence and people with cognitive impairment.
People “on the spectrum” share difficulties in social communication and social interaction, alongside restricted and repetitive patterns of behaviour, interests, or activities. They often experience a different processing of internal and external stimuli. For example, some every day sounds or types of lighting can feel unbearable to the point of covering eyes or ears, or having to move away from the source of disturbance.
Autistic people, and their families, often experience social isolation, and their reality is not easily known. Some families with autistic children let me enter their lives. With them I went to the park, waited for the end of the therapeutic sessions, went to pick up the children from school, shared lunch and dinner. I shared their everyday life. A relationship was built. This work took shape in a period of two years, following the rhythm of what developed during this time spent together.
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"It is as if a liberating thunderclap rolled across the sky: all things and people, adults, children, toys, animals, places, landscapes, trees, acquire the natural state of innocence that is revealed behind pain and wounds.
In these images a new peace is found and, maybe for the first time, a new silence is experienced, a palpable silence that can be felt, not just heard.
A journey conducted with infinite delicacy into the mystery of existence, through the light of photography, towards otherness and identity.”
Annamaria Bernucci
Art critic and historian