Despite the wide range and accessibility of digital image-making technologies, little attention has been paid to autistic people’s everyday photography. The aim of this article is to address this knowledge gap and investigate the ways in which photography enabled four autistic male adults to visually express their social world. Drawing on the writings of Merleau-Ponty and adopting an anthropological perspective to understand autism as a way of being, this article is positioned within the context of phenomenology and provides a more nuanced picture of who creates photographs, where, why, how often and for whom. Using a critical approach rooted in an understanding of everyday life that recognises the value of the banal, repetitive and unnoticed, and the importance of quotidian events, the photography central to this article is characterised by social practices. With a focus on the ‘doing of photography’, key findings of this qualitative, interdisciplinary study revealed that the four autistic participants had a distinct aesthetic vision and used their sensory perception to communicate their ways of seeing and being through the camera. As a social practice, photography mediated participants’ relationships to objects, other people and the social world, in tha the mere gazing at the camera screen offered a domain of social interaction with the subjects that participants photographed.

尽管数字图像制作技术范围广泛且易于使用，但很少有人关注自闭症患者的日常摄影。本文的目的是解决这一知识差距，并调查摄影如何使四名患有自闭症的男性成年人以视觉方式表达他们的社交世界。本文借鉴梅洛-庞蒂的著作，采用人类学视角将自闭症理解为一种存在方式，将其定位于现象学的语境中，更细致地描绘了照片的创作者、拍摄地点、原因、频率和目的。谁。使用根植于对日常生活的理解的批判性方法，认识到平庸、重复和不被注意的价值，以及日常事件的重要性，本文的核心摄影以社会实践为特征。这项跨学科定性研究的重点是“摄影的行为”，其主要发现表明，四名自闭症参与者具有独特的审美视野，并利用他们的感官知觉来传达他们通过相机观看和存在的方式。作为一种社会实践，摄影调解了参与者与物体、其他人和社会世界的关系，因为仅仅凝视相机屏幕就提供了与参与者拍摄的对象进行社交互动的领域。跨学科研究表明，四名自闭症参与者具有独特的审美视野，并利用他们的感官知觉来传达他们通过相机观看和存在的方式。作为一种社会实践，摄影调解了参与者与物体、其他人和社会世界的关系，因为仅仅凝视相机屏幕就提供了与参与者拍摄的对象进行社交互动的领域。跨学科研究表明，四名自闭症参与者具有独特的审美视野，并利用他们的感官知觉来传达他们通过相机观看和存在的方式。作为一种社会实践，摄影调解了参与者与物体、其他人和社会世界的关系，因为仅仅凝视相机屏幕就提供了与参与者拍摄的对象进行社交互动的领域。