Exhibit
The Road to Freedom
Portraits of People with Disabilities
Photographs by Gigi Kaeser. Interviews by Peggy Gillespie and students at Four Rivers Charter School.
This powerful exhibit documents the experiences, lives, and families of children, teens, and adults whose lives are affected by the full spectrum of physical, sensory, learning, and mental disabilities including cerebral palsy, polio, cystic fibrosis, learning disabilities, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress syndrome, quadriplegia, blindness, deafness, stroke, multiple sclerosis, Asperger’s syndrome, autism, Down syndrome and congenital heart disease. Along with color photographs by Gigi Kaeser, the exhibit features interviews conducted and edited by Peggy Gillespie and the 8th graders at the Four Rivers Charter School in Greenfield, MA. You can bring this exhibit to your school (K-12), college, library, workplace, museum, hospital, conference, etc.
“In The Road To Freedom, we meet people whose stories are not about overcoming their disabilities, but about overcoming discrimination.They tell of hard won achievements, wide-ranging interests, meaningful hobbies, bodily differences, innovative problem-solving, frustrating barriers and complicated balancing acts, but above all, of living full lives as friends, family members and participants in their communities.”
- Gail Landsman, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology, SUNY-Albany
