Nicola Simpkin-Hill. Jennie's Bionic leg (Exosym).2023
Innovations photography project. 2023
The Innovations photography project aims to build awareness of the physically disabled community through a photographic investigation of adapted and customized objects used to assist its members in their daily lives. The Innovations photography project acts as a seed for the larger concept of a SEE ME social art collaborative, which will activate disability awareness and drive social change by providing a platform for social identity and growing disability culture through the arts in Aotearoa/ NZ.
This project aims to build awareness of the disabled community through a photographic investigation of adapted and customized objects used to assist its members in their daily lives.
Following on from the Adaptations photography project pilot exhibition in June 2022, the Innovations Photography project had an online presence at the Auckland Festival of Photography continuing with the same aim which is to build awareness of a largely unseen and unheard disabled community through a photographic investigation of adapted, fabricated, and customized objects used to assist its members in their daily lives.
Photographer Nicola Simpkin-Hill’s forensic yet open-ended approach is grounded in her lived experience of disability as the mother of a 22-year-old daughter with cerebral palsy. Simpkin-Hill understands first-hand the challenges of the disability landscape and advocates for a deeper understanding of the lived experience of these communities and further inclusion of their perspectives and voices in wider society.
Adaptations Photography Project. Pilot. 2022
This pilot exhibition is the first step in the larger aim to build awareness of a largely unseen and unheard physically disabled community through a photographic investigation of adapted, fabricated, and customized objects used to assist its members in their daily lives.
Photographer Niki Simpkin-Hill’s forensic yet open-ended approach is grounded in her lived experience of disability as the mother of a 21-year-old daughter with cerebral palsy.
Simpkin-Hill understands first-hand the challenges of the disability landscape and advocates for a deeper understanding of the lived experience of these communities and further inclusion of their perspectives and voices in wider society.
The main aim of this pilot exhibition is to engage with and encourage participation from the physically disabled community who use devices to assist with their daily living. Purchasing prints framed or unframed from this pilot exhibition is also a way to engage and ensure the future success of this project.
Adaptations pilot exhibition,
7-13 June 2022
In conjunction with the Auckland photography festival at Studio One Toi Tu. Ponsonby, Auckland NZ
Buy Niki' Hill's Adaptations Prints
Niki's prints are available for purchase. View the full catalogue below to see range of work.
Contact
Niki Hill
Phone: 0274740532
Email: nicolasimpkinhill@gmail.com
Beach Haven, Auckland
New Zealand
