This photographer has some great work. His exhibit is called The Rolling Exhibition, www.therollingexhibition.com. “I finally got sick of it,” he said, and decided to stare back through his camera lens. He was surprised when the resulting photos looked
cool. Connolly was born without legs. His condition is the result of what doctors call a sporadic birth defect. There is no solid medical explanation and he has experienced no other physical effects. In a New Zealand bar, a midget challenged him to a fight. In a Ukrainian subway, a woman thought he was a holy man, put her hand on him and started praying in Yiddish. In Romania, people thought he was a beggar and stuffed money in his backpack. In Los Angeles, a guy thought he was a carnival act, looking for an agent. Most of his stories were funny. Among the hazards he encountered were cobblestones, cars (he has had several close calls, and once got hit) and dogs. “Dogs just think I am the devil,” he said. But in Sarajevo, Bosnia, the scene of horrific warfare and ethnic cleansing in the 1990s, Connolly had his most difficult time. “There were people who were not that different from me,” he said. They had similar circumstances but for a very different reason. The expressions on the faces of people who spotted him “were sadder, more sincere.” One boy assumed Connolly had been hit by a mortar shell, he said, “instead of an American kid fortunate to have all this great stuff given to him. One man in the audience asked if he wished he had legs. Connolly replied that he was forced to wear prosthetic legs from age 3 to 11 and he didn't like them. They had no knee joints, and he didn't like being up that high. Now he uses the prosthetic legs as “party favors.” “No, I've grown up with this vantage point, this lifestyle,”
Connolly said. “And so far, it's working.”

By Curtis M. Wong
For The Prague Post
July 4th, 2007 ”http://www.praguepost.com/articles/2007/07/04/snaps-show-cities-from-a-rare-perspective.php