Down and integrated by Baptiste Lignel

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Louise, 4 years old, with Down Syndrome, il playing in her room before going to school.

Brussels - Belgium - 15/06/06

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Louise, 4 years old, with Down Syndrom. Her father Emmanuel, her mother Christelle and a friend, Anaïs. In the Saint Gilles neighbourhood, Brussels.

Brussels - Belgium - 06/02/05

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Louise, 4 years old with Down Syndrome, with her little sister and her father, who is buttonning her jacket, on her their way to school.

Brussels - Belgium - 15/06/06

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Diane, 13 years old, with a friend at the "Cit des Sciences", in the butterfly section.

Paris - France - 09/04/05

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Louise, 4 years old with Down Syndrome, playing in the yard with two friends during recess, in school.

Brussels - Belgium - 15/06/06

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Eva, 6 years old with Down Syndrome, resting on the playground of the daycare center.

Paris - France - 01/06/05

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Diane, 13 years old with Down Syndrome, in her classroom.

Paris - France - 03/02/06

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Diane, 13 years old with Down Syndrome, during her Judo class. All her family takes classes in this same school.

Paris - France - 01/04/05

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Louise, 4 years old with Down Syndrome, during her wednesday afternoon sprots class.

Brussels - Belgium - 14/12/05

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Pauline & Eva, two 6 year olds with Down Syndrome, hugging their mother Anne in the morning at the day care center.

Paris - France - 06/04/05

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Pauline & Eva, two twin 6 year olds with Down Syndrome, playing on the ground of their day care center.

Paris - France - 06/04/05

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Eva, 6 years old with Down Syndrome, playing in the yard of the daycare center where she goes with her sister every wednesday.

Paris - France - 06/04/05

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Marianne, 2 years old with Down Syndrome, trying to learn how to walk at the nursery accross the street from where she lives.

Paris - France - 30/05/05

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Elisa, 12 years old with Down Syndrome, in her acting class

Paris - France - 14/06/05

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Elisa, 12 years old with Down Syndrome, in the street.

Paris - France - 14/06/05

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Louise, 4 years old wth Down Syndrome, in her mother's arms.

Brussels - Belgium - 18/09/05

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Louise, 4 years old with Down Syndrome, with both her parents, walking in the Park.

Brussels - Belgium - 11/11/05

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Louise, and her father, at home.

Brussels - Belgium - 12/11/05

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Pauline, 6 years old with Down Syndrome, on the shoulders of her educator during a trip to Disneyland Paris.

Paris - France - 13/12/06

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Pauline, 6 years old with Down Syndrome, on the Mange with an educator. Disneyland Paris.

Paris - France - 13/12/06

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Eva, 6 years old with Down Syndrome, during a theater play at the Maireie du 18¡ arrondissement.

Paris - France - 09/12/06

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Diane, 13 years old with Down Syndrome, watches a movie in 3D with her mother.

Paris - France - 09/04/05

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Louise, 4 years old with Down Syndrome, arguing with her father at the family table.

Brussels - Belgium - 12/11/05

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Marianne, 3 years old with Down Syndrome, being fed by her older brother.

Paris - france - 19/11/05

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Marianne, 2 years old with Down Syndrome, with her physician, working on motor reflexes.

Paris - France - 22/09/05

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Diane, 13 years old with Down Syndrome, during her hip-hop class.

Paris - France - 16/11/05

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Diane, 13 years old with Down Syndrome, during her hip-hop class.

Paris - France - 16/11/05

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Pauline, 6 years old with Down Syndrome, taking her bath, surrounded by her dolls.

Paris - France - 01/06/05

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Jordan, 4 years old with Down Syndrome, playing in the swimming pool.
Jordan Joumana, 4 ans, et son père, lors d'une séance de bébés nageurs de la piscine Hébert (Paris 18°).

Paris - France - 17/02/07

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Jordan Joumana, 4 ans, et son père, lors d'une séance de bébés nageurs de la piscine Hébert (Paris 18°).

Paris - France - 17/02/07

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Eva, 6 years old with Down Syndrome, on the beach of Le Touquet, late september

Le Touquet - France - 24/09/06

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Pauline & Eva, two twin 6 year olds with Down Syndrome, playing on the ground of their day care center.

Paris - France - 06/04/05

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Story

My vision of people with a handicap has been determined by growing up having an uncle with Down Syndrome. This led me to think of this as "normal", only to find out later on that the way people with handicaps are often stigmatized in the general public's eye. For that reason i tried to portray kids with Down Syndrome as essentially kids, who incidentally had a little something different.

All those children are photographed in "main stream" situation, in "regular" class, or dance classes, or any type of leasure activity. I willingly stayed away from institutions designed especially to handle their specificity.

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