To mark International Stammering Awareness Day, David Vintiner was commissioned to shoot the new campaign for the British Stammering Association STAMMA, highlighting the many misconceptions those with a stammer experience.
Through a stop motion film and a series of static out of home executions, "It’s How We Talk" beautifully captures people with a stammer mid-sentence, celebrating each moment, while also calling out damaging comments that countless have endured.
The impactful new work, created by VMLY&R London, features seventeen members of the UK stammering community.
The film is voiced by six of the individuals photographed for the campaign - Betony Kelly, Bel Rickard, Christine Simpson, John Russell, Pedro Albuquerque and Steven Babic and produced by Sticker Studios, directed by Daniel Liakh, and edited by Beth Roberts at Nomad. Yellow Boat music handled the sound design and composition.
"It was such a joy to photograph a no holds barred, front on presentation of people mid-stammer. Non-stammerers often don’t know how to react or where to look when a stammerer is speaking. I hope these portraits make people stop and not look away. There’s a great deal of beauty in the moment, in someone speaking with a stammer."
- David Vintiner
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