Stock image collection authentically portrays people with disabilities

One year ago, on Global Disability Awareness Day, Getty Images launched a compilation of 50 stock photographs that depicted people with disabilities as human beings with full, gratifying lives. 

Dubbed "The Disability Collection," the pictures set out to dispel stereotypes which often cast those with a disability as either "heroic" or "pitiful," defined by any physical, intellectual, or developmental limitations. Now that collection has more than 1,200 images which thoughtfully portray disability as just one part of a person's complex identity. The models come from diverse backgrounds and show a range of disabilities, a conscious effort to reflect the world as it is rather than how it's been filtered through one photographer's idea of what normal looks like.  Read more...

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