"Timothy Archibald is a San Francisco based editorial and commercial photographer. His personal projects have appeared in the collections of Videotage in Hong Kong, The Australian Center for Photography, The Museum of Sex, NY, N.Y., and The Catskill Center for Photography in Woodstock N.Y. In his recent book Echolilia: A Father's Photographic Conversation with his Autistic Son, Archibald used his camera to create an emotional bridge with his son."
The note above is a short description of who Timothy Archibald is and what kind of work he does. Going to his lecture was surprisingly really fun. He opened with a project that was titled "Sex Machines" and it was about people from all around the U.S. that made and/or sold actual 'sex machines'. He made it very humorous and was extremely open to discussion about his thought process and where he got the idea to do such a taboo topic. He then went on to show us another project of his about his son, who has autism. I was able to relate to this project more on a deeper note because I am very close friends with my figure skating coach whose son has autism as well. It was interesting to see how Archibald took photos of his son, some doing everyday activities and some not so normal. At the end, when students were asking questions, he was very open to discussion and made everything as if it were a one on one conversation with him. He connected with the audience to a great extent and made the lecture not so lecture-ish..!
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