Tom Olin - photojournalist and social documentarian for disability movement in the USA

When I was working in Massachusetts, I had the fortune of contacting and talking to Tom Olin who was kind enough to give me permission for one of my favourite photos from the disability movement - I cannot find a bigger version of this picture.

  ©Tom Olin

Here is a tribute to him and his work by Mike Ervin and Pat Figueroa, Jr.
 

Tom Olin is someone everybody sees at national disability events, but few realize what he has done.

Olin, director of the Disability Rights Center, is known for his pictures. But, more than simply a photographer, he is a photojournalist and social documentarian. Olin’s photos have produced a pictorial chronicle unrivaled in the history of American ideology, including the civil rights and women’s movements.

Read the rest at Independence Today

Thank you Tom for all your photos!