Nick Paton's American Sign Language

If

You

Communicate

D

V

U

R

I love you boy

I love you girl

I love you

Silence

 Nick Paton is an Edinburgh-based photographer nearing the end of his BA in Photography and Film at Edinburgh Napier.

This series is from a bigger body of work – American Sign Language.  Collectively the work focuses on visual language and the use and function of the image.  All images from the series were taken in Canada in a School for the Deaf, near Toronto – all those in the image (and 16mm film) use American Sign Language as their primary use of communication.

The series can be found at Nick’s website.

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Translate -

To: express the sense of (in another language),

be expressed or be capable of being expressed

in another language, convert something or be

converted into (another form or art).