![]() ![]() That was the most surprising and amazing moment: when you understand that your job can really help people. Imagine that along with me, a huge number of women, upon seeing Maria’s photo, believed in their child. ![]() Well, really, thank you very much for your girl. “Hello!!! I really want to thank you … When my daughter was born, it was scary, and I stupidly searched ‘photos of children with Down syndrome’ on Google and the first photos that I saw were of your daughter. I recently read a comment beneath one of Maria’s photos on Instagram: What’s the most surprising thing that you’ve learned, either personally or professionally, during your time shooting photos? This is what made me proudest in seeing my daughter become a Down syndrome ambassador. And when people look at these photos, they can finally pay proper attention and care for these people. Now, there are a lot of images of Maria around the world reminding people that people with special needs and disabilities live all around them. I made a collage of the magazine covers for the exhibition of photography that we took in 2018. Later, Maria’s photographs became common all over the world in various magazines, newspapers, and books - both in simple articles but also on the covers. News about this petition, with Maria’s photo front and center, made it to all the most important American, British, and Latin American papers around the world. It was a very interesting collage where Maria was a Princess with a magic wand, and was very funny especially because she likes Disney movies so much. The first time I realized Maria was becoming famous was in 2014, when I found her face on a petition calling for Disney to create an animated hero with Down syndrome. And as soon as her photographs hit the Internet, she became a real global ambassador for Down syndrome. What inspired you to focus on your daughter Maria as a model for your photos?Īt first, my main photo models were my older children, but as soon as I took the first photos of Maria, who was 5–6 years old at the time, I realized that her extraordinary smile could conquer the world (which happened soon after). Then, cameras were changing all the time– from color photos to Polaroids, etc.– but my father’s old camera now belongs to my son, as he’s currently studying photography. Then, my parents gave me a simple camera that I always had with me and it left me with many unforgettable moments that I captured through black and white photos. My father had a pretty good camera at the time and we had a small laboratory in the bathroom where we developed photos with a red light. I became interested in photography at around 11–12 years old. ![]()
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