Parkinson Portraits

Capturing the person behind the Parkinson face. Portraits made right after a dance class. Parkinson's isn't just a tremor, a freeze, or dystonia. No it is all encompassing. Motor skills and autonomous functions are getting through the years less information from the brain, telling them what to do. As the muscles in the face are. A Parkinson's face, it is called, rigid gaze and no emotion, feels like wearing a mask. This series of portraits we took in 2014 just after they had taken a dance class of Foundation Dance for Health and briefly stepped out of that harness.