This thesis investigates Deaf culture through football at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. It is a multimedia documentary project about Shelby Bean, a Hard of Hearing man with Goldenhar Syndrome who came to Gallaudet as a student athlete in 2009 and became a football coach after he...
This thesis concerns aging, blindness, and deafness in the isolated Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan (UP). I investigated the effect of extreme isolation on Lauri Lappi, a 90-year-old lifelong male resident. This project was photographed and documented in Champion-Humboldt, Michigan after...