Through a brother's lens
Capozziello has collected his photographs and writing into a book, "The Distance Between Us," to be published later this year. The work is an honest depiction of Nick's everyday challenges with cerebral palsy, but moreover, it is a documentary about the relationship between the brothers, their family and the world they live in.
Read on to see selected photographs and text from the book. Learn more about the project on Capozziello's Kickstarter page.
In this photo, I'll get one of these frantic phone calls from Mom telling me Nick's having one of THOSE cramps, and that I need to come home and help them hold him down. As I weave through traffic I worry about our parents, who are much smaller than us, and also now much older, about them struggling to hold him still.
In it, I saw a man on a busy city street who looked like Nick, except he was walking without any sort of disability. I'm always doing that, rewriting what is supposed to be Nick's life. I lean over and ask Mom if she hopes things will change for Nick, for us. She puts her book down. "No. I can
"Now I can listen to music anytime," he says. Right there, in the smoke