Levi is autistic and camera shy? but his mom has a great idea
Eight-year-old Levi loves Dinos and Jurassic Park. What the boy from the US state of Georgia, however, does not love so much are photos, or posing for it? much to the chagrin of his mother. Apart from the fact that Samantha Bishop would like to have memories for the family album, she is also a photographer. And so the 26-year-old was particularly frustrated that she was able to capture enchanting pictures of everything and everyone? not only from her own son.
Levi's pronounced camera shame is also related to the fact that the boy is autistic. "Many photos show that he looks away from the camera and does not smile, although in truth he is a very carefree and silly child," says his mother to the US portal "Babble". "He always says 'I do not know what to do with my face.'"
Dino photos go viral on the net
In order to do justice to her son and his personality, Bishop therefore came up with something special: She bought a dinosaur costume for Levi and photographed him there, together with his cousin and best friend Lola. "I knew he would love it, and he did it," reports Bishop. "He laughed insanely, the shoot went great and the kids love the photos."
And not only her. The funny, unconventional photos spread quickly on the web, where they were a thousand times geliked and shared. However, Levi's mother also had to listen to hostility? about why she mentions her son's autism at all. That was irrelevant and just a call for attention, critics said.
No, replies Bishop: In order to understand what you and Levi mean by these photos, the background is important. She had Levi at 18 and had fled with him from their former relationship when he was just six months old. "For years, I hounded with his diagnosis," Bishop writes on Facebook. "I prayed for a normal day, a normal life."
"I failed as a mother"
She wished that Levi would grow up like other children: with birthday parties, sports lessons and music lessons. And with corresponding "Instagram-perfect" photos. The fact that she was able to take beautiful, enchanting pictures of other children, but not of her own son, has made her ready, says the hobby photographer in her emotional post.
"It would be a lie to say that I'm not sobbing while writing this," Bishop confesses. "I failed as a mother." Only with her idea to photograph Levi in Dino costume, she had managed to do justice to him: to show your son as he is? and doing completely unobjected, beautiful photos. "No smile, bribe, fake cheerfulness."
Here are the most beautiful pictures of Levi and Lola? more photos can be seen on the Facebook page of Samantha Bishop.
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