Standing Still Book

Euan Balman is 21 years old and lives with autism. He is known as ‘Bug’. For most of his life people around him haven’t understood him, the world he lives in or the impact autism has on him. Bug is a photographer/digital artist based in Llantrisant, South Wales (UK).

“As an autistic person I use my work to represent my world. Photography helps me to understand my surroundings by slowing things down, I then can develop these images by controlling the light, noise and power of the image. This is a much easier way for me to communicate. When I am out with my camera I like to try and find the extraordinary in the ordinary”.

Standing still is made up of 12 pieces of digital artwork, each telling part of his story reflecting his lived experience of autism. They start from a photograph taken as part of an experience and become a visual representation of the emotions felt behind it through digital enhancement.