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Touring Intimate Encounters

Published May 16th 2008, Posted in Northland / 1 Comment Touring Intimate Encounters

Is your organisation interested in educating the wider community about disability issues?

Would you like to host an event that provides a strong visual impact along with honest stories from the participants?

Photographic exhibition, Intimate Encounters: Disability and Sexuality by photographer Belinda Mason-Lovering has been extremely well received by the Northland community. 

Over 2000 people viewed the exhibition in Whangarei receiving overwhelming positive feedback from the public with comments such as:

  • “One of the best and most thought provoking exhibitions I have ever seen, Touching, moving and inspiring”;
  • “Well done for leading out on such a beautiful exhibition”;
  • “A wonderful, insightful exhibition, the written stories beside the photos gave a good insight into the subjects, their life and challenges, highly recommended”.

The forty photographic works depict disabled individual’s sexuality in their own context encouraging the public to see people with disabilities as people first and foremost rather than their disability experience.  “This exhibition goes a long way to breaking down misconceptions about people with disabilities and sexuality” says Denise Beckwith, one of the models portrayed as ‘The Mermaid’.

Read about and view pictures from the opening night.

If your organisation would like to host this internationally critically acclaimed exhibition please contact us.

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Posted by Janet Crease  on  05/19  at  12:54 PM

Brilliant, enlightening, beautifully presented and an inspiration to all. Thankyou.

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Mark Shanks on 04/10/2008 says:

Thanks Gail and Tiaho Trust for posting this information. I do hope people from the Northland can attend. Let me know if you require transport and I’ll see what I can do. Keep smiling, Mark

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ria on 01/10/2008 says:

Kia ora Ashton and co. Very inspirational article for our maori men, i’m the gout research nurse for ngati porou hauora i would love to utilise your article and photo to motivate our many sufferers here on the coast.  I too have come across some very young guys (and old) who are too whakama etc and are not presenting early enough, could you contact me please?

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dianne doran on 25/09/2008 says:

Congratulations Loren . That is so exciting for you .

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