The Epilepsy Foundation publishes a magazine for people with epilepsy called EpilepsyUSA, and if you follow this link , you can read my column in the magazine. In the current edition, a few photos are published too.
If you read my living with epilepsy post from several months ago, you can understand why having something published in a national epilepsy magazine is a big deal. I did not want people to know that I had epilepsy.
For this post, I am including one of my favorite photos epilepsy below. I took it at Camp Coehlo last year. I was up in the Yosemite forest photographing one of the teen-aged campers. The climbers face is intentionally obstructed so that a person could imagine almost anyone having epilepsy... and so that anyone with epilepsy can imagine themselves flying through the Yosemite forest supported by others.
Camp Coehlo, 2009
I thought that acknowledging having epilepsy would limit how people saw me. (It might.) I also thought living openly might limit how I saw myself. The opposite has happened. Because I know that epilepsy can change someone's life suddenly, and because I want to be prepared to help people with epilepsy, I have realized that I must become more accepting of others. I am asking that other people become more accepting also.
I am not naive. We call each other names and then wonder why people do not want to play with us. We engage in petty arguements and wonder why we cannot solve large problems. Perhaps that is why I like the photo...
The person with epilepsy could be anyone. It could be our ally or our enemy. Are we prepared to help both? Either?
So how do we climb just a little higher? How do we become just a little better? How do we demand that our friends do the same?
These are questions easier asked than answered. Still, worth being asked.
Hello Mr. Farley it is great to see your photography and read your articles about Epilepsy. You inspire me to be a great father.
Posted by: jaime perry | May 14, 2011 at 01:37 PM
Can anyone buy your photographs ?
Posted by: jaime perry | May 14, 2011 at 01:37 PM
Thanks for the question, and sorry for the delayed response. (I have changed my comment settings while trying to remove some spam comments and missed publishing your comment.)
Many of my photos can be purchased. On the photo gallery links, I have often priced the photos, and depending on whether I have signed releases, some photos can be purchased for commercial use too.
Thank you for the question.
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