Go ahead and stare …
July 3rd, 2008
The Washington Post visits with photographer Kevin Connolly (left) who is exhibiting at the Kennedy Center. The 22-year-old Montana native traveled around the world and took pictures of people staring at him. He was born with no legs (Connolly thinks doctors have no idea why) and gets around on a skateboard.
Connolly’s disability inspires his work, but friends warn that people shouldn’t make too much of a fuss about it.
“When I want to agitate him, I tell him he’s my hero and he hates that,” says James Joyce, Connolly’s film professor at Montana State University. “He absolutely hates that. What he wants is for you to respect him for his work and not for ‘overcoming his challenges’ (and I put that in air quotes).”
(Chris Toalson photo in the Washington Post)


