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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Photo shows model not "confined to wheelchair"; caption says otherwise

Shannon Murray, a model who is also a wheelchair user, is the first disabled model used in a High Street retailer's ad campaign, according to the Daily Mail.

The model is hoping that the kinds of images used will challenge preconceptions and assumptions, but ironically the caption under a photo showing Shannon Murray out of her wheelchair, laying on the ground with her feet up on the seat of her ultralightweight wheelchair, contains the still often used description "confined to a wheelchair".

It's also ironic that the article explaining it continues to use this kind of language, beginning with:

Debenhams is set to become the first High Street retailer to use a disabled model in its advertising campaigns.

Shannon Murray, who is confined to a wheelchair, took part in a photo shoot for the department store last week.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1253699/Wheelchair-user-set-disabled-model-star-major-High-Street-campaign-Debenhams.html#ixzz0gZ05JZ4l

2 comments:

Meredith Gould said...

Looks like the caption writer and editor were "confined to their thinking."

Ruth said...

That phrase is giving me a few ideas....