ABSTRACT
The digitalization of image-making technologies has altered the relationship between photography and its users and affects the way people interact with the world. With a focus on the “doing of photography,” this chapter is concerned with photography as a social act and examines its use and movement in an everyday context to recognize the complexity inherent in photographic practices. Drawing on findings of an empirical and interdisciplinary study, this chapter discusses how four young male adults with autism spectrum condition (ASC) approach the camera to depict their sociality. There has been little scholarship concerning the everyday photography of people with ASC, who are among many other marginalized groups whose photography has not been researched. As a biologically based, lifelong neurological spectrum condition, autism affects how a person makes sense of the world, processes information and relates to other people. The chapter demonstrates that digital photography provides an image-making practice through which individuals with ASC can illustrate their ways of seeing and diverse social and personal realities.
