Community & Connection

Friends, family and finding your people.

Friends, family and finding your people. This collection shows disabled people in the middle of community life: laughing together, sharing a meal, joining in.

Use it when your story is about belonging. Everyone pictured chose to be there, was paid, and signed a release.

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A man and woman play cards with a teenage boy wearing headphones and using a tablet at a wooden tableA teenage girl with a below-knee limb difference leans against a bright wall, smiling at the camerayoung woman with Down syndrome and an older woman sitting together on a couch smiling at a tableta young man walks down a laneway past a mural while his friend photographs him near an outdoor cafeThree friends sit cross-legged on a picnic blanket under a tree, playing cards togetherTwo women smile at each other over coffee at an outdoor cafe tableA young man leans forward from the driver's seat to play a racing video game using on-screen controls on the car's touchscreen, parked outdoors.A woman using a wheelchair pauses at the supermarket entrance, facing out toward the exit doors and car park beyondTwo women pose together in front of a colorful street mural, one leaning on a walking caneA girl in a fuzzy cream jacket browses candy in a lolly shop display casea young man leans against a large mural of sunglasses reading peace on a city wallTwo young men sit on a bench at a bus shelter, one talking while the other looks down at his phone.A woman using a wheelchair smiles while handing a cloth to a checkout worker at a supermarket registerTwo women chat closely over coffee outdoors, one using a mobility cane and the other who has Down syndrome smiling brightlyA woman using a wheelchair wheels out through the automatic doors of a supermarket toward the car parkTwo young men in the back seat of a car look down together as one adjusts his seatbelt.two friends walk together along a sunny shopping strip past a delicatessena young man in glasses looks at his phone against a colourful mural backgroundThree people stand together in front of a large mural, a young woman with Down syndrome, a woman with a forearm crutch, and a teenage boyA young man and a woman laugh together at an outdoor cafe table while a young girl beside them smiles, iced coffees and a latte on the table.A smiling bearded man sits at a cafe table with a tattooed hand resting near a takeaway coffee cup in the foregrounda young man in glasses smiles wryly holding his phone against a graffiti wallA young man and a woman stand together at a stainless steel kitchen counter near the stoveThree people sit together on a leather couch watching TV in a bright, wood-panelled living room