It was when we moved to the playroom with the younger kids that I really began to see the Positive Exposure at work. Set up to document the process on video I relaxed into my role while the kids instantly responded to the grown man rolling around on the floor with them. The activity in the room attained a rhythm to match Rick's chant: "X is a-MAZ-ing. Y is a-MAZ-ing. Where is Z? Has anyone seen Z?" he would say while the children hid underneath huge hats and laughed with their entire bodies. The children were blooming under the camera like a ray of sun.

For little ones who have to carry so much, being in front of Rick's camera is like spending time in zero gravity: crawling on the floor with blocks they seemed to be floating. Kids respond to photography because they understand that it is a kind of play. They were watching television, acted up for the camera, saw a preview of the photo Rick had just taken of them, ran around and went back to watching television or building forts as if it was all a natural progression.