I have had some trouble focusing recently. Not with concentrating (not more than usual anyway), but with my camera. Being visually impaired, I have to rely on my camera’s autofocus. Using manual focus requires that I can see the viewfinder. I use the viewfinder to compose (mostly), but definitely not to focus. Unfortunately, autofocus...
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Nicholas Birchak, a blind photographer, has had his photoblog, A Blind Perspective, featured on the monthly ILovePhotoBlogs.com site. Nick, as Nick birchak, has recently joined us on our Flickr group. A Blind Perspective features Nick’s Photo of the Day. Nick’s story share how “Beyond 12 inches everything gets blurry for me”. Congratulations, Nick! Share on...
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Wired.com ran a great story about us today: Blind Photographers Use Gadgets to Realize Artistic Vision | Gadget Lab. Wired intervied Alex de Jong, Jason DeCamillis and me, Tim O’Brien. The article also features some photos, three from each of us. From the article: “Dejong is part of an online community called Blind Photographers,...
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The BBC has posted a wonderful video on the Sight Unseen exhibit of blind photographers. “Blind photographers showcase workk” is a short video clip of images from the exhibit, narrated by curator Douglas McCulloh. An exhibition called ‘Sight Unseen’ has opened at the California Museum of Photography which showcases the work of twelve blind...
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A short drama featuring a young photographer losing his sight is in production by a few talented filmmakers in Washington, DC.  From the recently launched web site: “The Blind Photographer is a 2009 thirty minute short film by multi-award-winning filmmakers Isaiah Headen and Dustin Harrison-Atlas. It is the story of James Davis, a teenage...
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I came across a great video featuring discussions with three blind photographers. In Obscura, directed by film student Damon Stea,  you meet three of the photographers featured in the Sight Unseen exhibit currently showing at UCal Riverside. You can see them work as well as their final images. “Photographers Kurt Weston, Bruce Hall, and...
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Our website has been featured on ILovePhotoBlogs today. “In response to our post about blind photographer, Nicholas Birchak 0, we received a related blog  – Blind Photographers.org 1. Blind Photographers is a group for blind and otherwise visually-impaired photographers.” Thanks for the love! Share on Facebook
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Eco: On Blindness and the Arts is  Simon Hayhoe’s project to bridge academia and the arts around the issue of blindness. ECO was founded as an on-line knowledge base in 2006, in order to provide research resources, information and a gallery about blindness in the arts. It has now expanded, however, to include information...
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Blind Photographer and contributor to this website, Cathy McKie (aka EYZWIDESHUT), has had one of her images featured in the latest Schmap Vancouver travel guide. Her image, Dogs Romping on Ambleside Beash, is one of several images showing Ambleside Park. As the name suggests, this parkland is a perfect place for a beachside amble...
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A few weeks ago, I posted about the Sight Unseen exhibition of blind photographers. University of California at Riverside and the California Museum of Photography are hosting this first international show of blind photographers. The good press keeps coming. NPR’s new photojournalism blog, The Picture Show, has featured the exhibit in a recent post....
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