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About Miles Pilling

I'm a photographer who takes photos from a mobility scooter: After developing a variant of motor neurone disease a few years ago I was forced to give up my career as a TV cameraman and director. I raise funds and awareness for the MND Association, selling pictures at exhibitions and through my website scootershooter.co.uk. I have also co-created a book titled "26 Miles 4 MND" that tells the diverse stories of 26 people whose lives have been touched in different ways by motor neurone disease - 26miles4mnd.co.uk Through my photography and writing I would like to challenge my own and other peoples' preconceptions of "disability" and "the disabled".

Pre – photo shoot at the BBC

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26miles4mndTomorrow Cristian and I will be taking more portraits for the 26 Miles project – The first will be of a fantastic lady who runs a Facebook support group for one of the rarer forms of MND. After that, we’ll be visiting the BBC where we will be meeting and photographing a “national treasure” (well I think he is!) as well as some other personalities. At the moment I can’t reveal who, but I promise it will be worth the wait to find out.

I’ll take some pictures of Cristian setting up and working, before I have to get in front of the camera myself! We’ll be publishing some of those photos on our Facebook page, Twitter and here in the next few days.

Hopefully it will be interesting to see “behind the scenes” as we create the portraits that will make up the 26 we will publish in the days leading up to Cristian’s marathon!

Our photos of celebrities and other public figures will be published before the others – on here and Facebook and Twitter – so keep visiting to make sure you don’t miss any.

We’ll also be launching this site, our Just Giving page and our campaign “officially” in the next few days (in the meantime, you can still donate here) – so watch this space!

Thanks

Miles 🙂