Helping you get it right the first time.
An intentional partnership
to increase meaningful
disability representation.
We bring lived and learned experience to help you turn good intentions into meaningful impact. By combining expertise in production, photography, casting, access coordination, inclusive design, anti-ableism, and intersectional education, we offer a holistic approach to disability inclusion at every stage of the creative process.
Our Approach
Lived experience at the center. Always.
Disabled people’s lived and learned expertise guides our work. We build trusting relationships with community partners across disabilities, identities and experiences, creating meaningful opportunities to ensure nothing about us, without us.
Access and inclusion as creative practice.
We combine production knowledge and anti-ableist expertise to convert barriers into opportunities. We move beyond compliance checklists, designing practical solutions that adapt as people, needs and production realities change.
The long game.
We support production teams to address immediate barriers and tropes, while challenging the deeper patterns, mental models, and power dynamics behind them. We are obsessive about long-term, systemic change where access and anti-ableism become a shared commitment, responsibility, and business as usual.
Walking the talk.
We model inclusion in how we work, both with each other and with you. Our non-hierarchical, collaborative team brings complementary expertise, clear responsibilities and seamless support. We meet crews where they are, offering non-shaming guidance and building confidence through practice, recognizing change moves at the speed of trust.
"Working with Tilly was such an eyeopening experience for how accessibility needs should, and can, be met. She not only went above and beyond to do the research and consult with me ahead of time, which then ensured that I would have the accessibility requirements to comfortably work together in the environment, but she calmly and quickly found solutions to make any of the unforeseen adaptions needed throughout the day with ease. Never did I feel like my needs were a hassle, and because of her hard work, the shoot and day went smoothly and successfully.”
Model. Wheelchair user
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Discuss your narrative, your goals and how to get it right as you start to pull your production together. This could range from styling disabled talent so that the particulars of their disability are accommodated, working out if the set you’re building is actually accessible, or planning creative ways to showcase disability authentically.
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Book Tilly to join you on set to ensure all needs are met on the day. Tilly can also be available to your crew to ensure your company's narrative and placement of disabled talent within a shot is authentic; Tilly will be able to suggest small changes where necessary - and sometimes small changes make the biggest difference.
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Go over your set with Tilly virtually or in person to ensure that you have created an authentic, inclusive and safe set.
Case Studies
Example 1:
The job: An international campaign cast a disabled model with a lower limb prosthetic. They flew him across the world and had him in all of the marketing. Budgets were high and they even adapted a product to reflect the model's disability. This was all fantastic.
Where they went wrong: When the campaign came out, the way the company had chosen to showcase the prosthetic limb was by rolling up the disabled model's pant leg. Every other model had the same pants on and no one else had them rolled up. They also placed the disabled model at the forefront of every shot resulting in almost a trophy style "hoorah".
What they could have done: Preproduction call with Tilly to discuss styling. If all the models were matching, then could they have adjusted the pants for all models to show a bit of leg? If they couldn’t, could the posed 'hero shot' have included sitting so that the model with the prosthetic leg could have shown the ankle part of their prosthetic subtly? Did the disabled model need to be at the front of every shot? What was the reasoning behind that? Was it because of his prosthetic? If so, could he have not been included with the other models to showcase disability more subtly?
Example 2:
The job: A stills production hires a blind model for their campaign. This is their first time of working with disabled talent and the client is thrilled.
Where they went wrong: When the disabled model arrives on set, no one on the crew has worked with a blind model before. No one has asked for any prior information on what her needs are, and no one knows how to manage the situation. The photo crew have set up and signposted danger points with tape and signs. No one has mapped out any trip hazards to the model audibly and when the model is being photographed, the photographer is 10ft away in a noisy environment using hand signals to communicate.
What they could have done: Booked Tilly to be present at the shoot. Tilly could have been the disability advocate and ensured the set was a safe environment for the model to be in. Whilst the model was being photographed, Tilly also could have been standing off set but closer to the model to ensure that within the loud and busy environment, the model could clearly hear and understand instructions.