Alison Webber FRPS is someone who is on the autism spectrum, she has expended a great deal of time and energy creating different versions of myself in an attempt to fit into society’s expectations of how she should behave. She refers to this disguise as the Cloak of Conformity and the Corset of Expectation. The corset shaped her into an idealised form whilst the cloak displayed a version of her to the world which said, “Look I fit in.”

The “Cloak of Conformity and the Corset of Expectation” tells the story of her relationship with photography and autism and the ways in which her photographic journey has helped her realise that the cloak and the corset have been suffocating her creativity and that by discarding them she can express my true identity.

Accepting and understanding her autism has given her the confidence to express her identity through her photography which, in turn, has given her the confidence to explore new forms of artistic expression.

She does, of course, illustrate this with a liberal sprinkling of her own images.

More of Alison’s work can be found on her website.