Large format book of high quality photographic portraits of children with Down syndrome,taken by Eva Snoijink, who is also known as Mrs. Fluitekruidje. The images can be seen at her website.
Eva Snoijink realised that her preconceived ideas about Down’s syndrome were baseless after meeting Pien, a six-year-old girl with the condition, in 2006. A children’s photographer, who normally works under the name Mrs Fluitekruidje, this encounter inspired Snoijink to try and capture many positive aspects of the disability through her work.
“How little a child with Down’s syndrome differs from other children!” Snoijink remarks in the book’s preface. “How often I heard [from parents] ‘If I had known this beforehand, I wouldn’t have worried so much.’ This is what I want to show you: Down’s Upside.” Matilda Batterby's review of the book in The Independent, 31/01/2011
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