Double Take: A Memoir

Kevin Michael Connolly is a twenty-four year-old man who has seen the world in a way most of us never will. Whether swarmed by Japanese tourists at Epcot Center as achild or holding court at the X Games on his mono-ski Kevin Connolly has been an object of curiosity since the day he was born Without legs. Growing up in rural Montana. he was raised like my other kid (except, that is for his father's MacGwer-like contraptions such as the buti boof). As a college student Kevin traveled to seventeen countries on his skateboard including Bosnia, China. Ukraine, and Japan, 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, Kevin Connolly casts the lens inward to explore how we view ourselves and what it is to truly see another person. From the home of his family in Helena, Montana, to the streets of Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur, Kevin's remarkable journey will change the way you look at others, and the way you see yourself.

Born' without legs raised in Montana, and now a skaleboarding world traveler, Kevin Michael Connolly has seen the world in a way most people never will. His internationally acclaimed photo series, the Rolling Exhibition, which encompasses seventeen countries and more than 30,000 photographs of people staring at him, has been featured in museums and galleries around the world.