Through a brother's lens

Through a brother's lens

For more than thirteen years, photographer Christopher Capozziello has taken pictures of his twin brother, Nick, who has cerebral palsy. The photos were not intended to be published and, for a long time, Capozziello didn't even look at them himself. But over time, it became clear that Chris and Nick's story was a powerful one, that they eventually decided to share.

Capozziello has collected his photographs and writing into a book, "The Distance Between Us," to be published later this year. The work is an honest depiction of Nick's everyday challenges with cerebral palsy, but moreover, it is a documentary about the relationship between the brothers, their family and the world they live in.

Read on to see selected photographs and text from the book. Learn more about the project on Capozziello's Kickstarter page.

In this photo, I'll get one of these frantic phone calls from Mom telling me Nick's having one of THOSE cramps, and that I need to come home and help them hold him down. As I weave through traffic I worry about our parents, who are much smaller than us, and also now much older, about them struggling to hold him still.

Credit: Christopher Capozziello