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Sunday February 17, 2008

The disabled as art


By ANDREW SIA
Photos courtesy of VICTOR CHIN


A photo exhibition focuses on the Malaysian Paralympic athletes and makes us reconsider art and beauty.

FRAIDDEN Dewan is about to dive into a swimming pool, and you almostmiss the fact that one leg is missing. Lee Sheng Chow throws thejavelin, minus one arm. V. Ravindran and L. Bajury gangly trundle downthe track.

This is In The Face Of Disability, the second exhibition of photos about Malaysian Paralympic athletes by painter/photographer Victor Chin, 57.

揗any issues about the disabled are already being championed byother groups. I asked myself what small contribution I could make as anartist and photographer,