I must cosign on it though…there’s a tendency with some people here to make a mountain out of a molehill.

Consider this… hearing people who rely on speech have the same problem with photographs. They don’t express Spoken English any better than they do ASL. That’s the limitation of photography, period - it has nothing to do with being audistic.

To give an example… many of us have seen the pictures taken of Martin Luther King when he gave his “I Have a Dream” speech at the nation’s capital. But can one comprehend the powerful words spoken simply by looking at the photographs? Of course not… you have to view an actual film clip in order to do so. That’s not audistic, that’s just the reality of the medium and its limitations.

If you want to know what was said, you have to look at other mediums designed for the presentation of that information. This holds equally true for Hearing as it does Deaf, for Spanish as it does English, for Italians as it does Americans.

You want the DPHH gatherings to be videotaped? Certainly that is an option to be explored for the future - although I do have to wonder how many people would feel comfortable with seeing their personal, private conversations appearing on video. A few words spoken specifically for the camera? That might be possible, and worth discussing.

But please, don’t drag audism into the issue.

Uhm, so the thousands of photographs by deaf people during the Gallaudet protests were taken by audists?