Friends Who Share a Language
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/12/t-magazine/sign-language-friends.html
From left: EMILY McDERMOTT, writer and editor, hearing, 29; LUCAS ODAHARA, artist, hearing, 32; MEG STUART, dancer, choreographer and director, hearing, 56; YOUKA SNELL, instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter, hearing, 35; ACE MAHBAZ, actor, Deaf, 34; CHRISTOPHER TESTER, actor, sign language interpreter, student, Deaf, 39; CHRISTINE SUN KIM, artist, Deaf, 40; and THOMAS MADER, artist (and Kim’s husband), hearing, 37. Photographed at Lobe Block/Terrassenhaus Berlin on Feb. 27, 2021.
Friends Who Share a Language
In Berlin, a group of both Deaf and hearing creatives have found a common vocabulary.
From left: EMILY McDERMOTT, writer and editor, hearing, 29; LUCAS ODAHARA, artist, hearing, 32; MEG STUART, dancer, choreographer and director, hearing, 56; YOUKA SNELL, instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter, hearing, 35; ACE MAHBAZ, actor, Deaf, 34; CHRISTOPHER TESTER, actor, sign language interpreter, student, Deaf, 39; CHRISTINE SUN KIM, artist, Deaf, 40; and THOMAS MADER, artist (and Kim’s husband), hearing, 37. Photographed at Lobe Block/Terrassenhaus Berlin on Feb. 27, 2021.
Interviews by Gisela Williams
Photograph by Julia Sellmann
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