Echolilia: A Father’s Photographic Conversation with His Autistic Son. Timothy Archibald uses his camera to find an emotional bridge to his son Photographs and text from the book Echolilia: Sometimes I Wonder
My eldest son was born in 2001. He was always a kid who went to the beat of his own drummer. When he was 5, we began making photographs collaboratively as a way to find some common ground and attempt to understand each other. Soon after we began the project, Elijah was diagnosed on the autistic spectrum. Though the diagnosis gave me the words and history to understand my son better, it didn’t take away the mystery and the need to try to find an emotional bridge to him.”Echolilia” is an alternate spelling of a more common term, “echolalia,” used in the autistic community to refer to the habit of verbal repetition and copying that is commonly found in autistic kids’ behavior. I liked the idea of it: photography is a form of copying. Kids are a form of repetition. And looking at my kid with photography allowed me to see myself a new
“The quicker we all realize that we’ve been taught how to live life by people that were operating on the momentum of an ignorant past the quicker we can move to a global ethic of community that doesn’t value invented borders or the monopolization of natural resources, but rather the goal of a happier more loving humanity.”
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Michael: Yoga Girl
45º to the right.
GPOYWhatever day it is.
Guy near me at the bar commenting on the rich flavor textures he detects in his beer. Rolled my eyes so hard I started having a staring contest with my own pulsating optic nerve.
Swayze and Moore. #ghost
the troubles i’ve seen
The Clash - (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais
The Clash “(White Man) in Hammersmith Palais”
Thomas
Margaux et Zara
Ron sitting in to set the shot in Staten Island, NY.
Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up To Boston
Dropkick Murphys - I’m Shipping Up to Boston
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