Kevin Connolly Reading
We’re thrilled to announce that on Tuesday, October 27th at 7pm, Helena-area native and local photographer, speaker, author, and MSU grad, Kevin Michael Connolly will be here to read from and sign his new memoir, Double Take.
Mary Jane and Ariana have both read the review copy of the book and can’t recommend it highly enough. We’re very excited for this event and expect a large turnout. Double Take is scheduled for an October release, and for signed copies, pre-orders of the book are recommended.
Kevin Connolly was born in Helena, Montana in August of 1985. Born without legs, Kevin was otherwise a healthy baby and grew up like any other Montana kid; getting dirty, running in the woods, and getting dirty some more.
Kevin began taking photographs during Spring of 2005 and quickly fell in love with the medium. In 2006, Kevin ventured down to New Zealand and began to cultivate a unique and practical solution to get around – a skateboard. It was on his return home in the winter of 2006, that Kevin began work on a photo series entitled, The Rolling Exhibition – a photo series that grappled with the stares and attention that he received in countries around the world.
Kevin used his success as a professional skier to fund his international work on The Rolling Exhibition and in October of 2007, gave his first public presentation on the series. Since then, The Rolling Exhibition has been featured on ABC, BBC, NPR, and media outlets around the world.
Kevin currently lives in Bozeman, Montana, as a writer and photographer. For more information on Kevin’s other endeavors, please navigate to www.kevinmichaelconnolly.com or www.therollingexhibition.com.
A powerful journey around the world and into the heart and soul of an extraordinary young man born without legs.
Kevin Michael Connolly is a twenty-four-year-old who has seen the world in a way most of us never will. Whether swarmed by Japanese tourists at Epcot Center as a child or holding court at the X Games on his mono-ski as a teenager, Kevin has been an object of curiosity since the day he was born without legs. Growing up in rural Montana, he was raised him like any other kid (except, that is, for his father’s MacGyver-like contraptions such as the “butt boot”). As a college student, Kevin traveled to seventeen countries on his skateboard and, in an attempt to capture the stares of others, he took more than 30,000 photographs of people staring at him. In this dazzling memoir, Connolly casts the lens inward to explore how we view ourselves and what it is to truly see another person. We also get to know his quirky and unflappable parents and his spunky girlfriend. From the home of his family in Helena, Montana to the streets of Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur, Connolly’s remarkable journey will change the way you look at others, and the way you see yourself.