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PhotoAbility is the work of New Mobility Person of the Year Deborah Davis and Australian tourism expert Bill Forrester. It charts a positive path through the excesses common in representing people with disabilities in images. It marks a transition point by moving from discussion to providing a database of commercially available quality images.
Images at the poles the unaccepatable - off-the-path images - havebeen labeled "Inspiration Porn" and Desperation Porn."
Read Kara Ayers in her Audacity Magazine piece, "Desperation Porn: The Impact of Graphic Medical Images on the Disability Community":
Read the full article: http://www.audacitymagazine.com/desperation-porn-the-impact-of-graphic-medical-images-on-the-disability-community/Stella Young wrote a phenomenal post on inspiration porn this summer. She describes the "feel good" images of children with disabilities as objectifying and limiting to our range of experience as people with disabilities.
I consider this newest trend a polar opposite type of image but with a similar impact. Graphic medical images of nameless children splashed across the Internet are a form of desperation porn. Posters seek short-term gratification of crisis support needs with little thought as to the implications of these images on their child's future.