Elodie Perriot is a photographer, more precisely, a portraitist. Working for an NGO, she is often sent to the four corners of the earth for humanitarian work. She doesn't shrink from her assignment — confronting distress, illness, and disability. She does not slant her pictures. She does not take sides. She does not cheat the subjects of her photographs.

For several weeks now, Elodie Perriot has been creating portraits of people with developmental disabilities at a day program in Paris. Although her work is not yet complete, she graciously agreed to entrust her portraits to us.