Just yesterday, I received the following question over email: The person who told me your name, or more specifically about your group, is lion42 and obviously a visually impaired person. I forgot the ratio she can see, but finding out about she got into photography and her subject matter. wasn’t fun. So. I will...
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Over the years, I have devoted considerable thought to how I see. Sometimes I spot things that no one around me does. Sometimes I can make out things further away than usual. At others, I mistake my wife for a hat. No, not exactly. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And...
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TIME magazine is highlighting a new exhibit at the University of California, Riverside with a photo essay, Photos by Blind Photographers. TIME describes the exhibit: “A spectacular new exhibit at the University of California, Riverside raises extraordinary questions about the nature of sight.” Photographers include Bruce Hall, who is a fellow member of the...
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A few weeds ago, Qiana Mestrich, from the lack Star Rising photography blog, ran across the Twitter feed for the Blind Photographers site. Curious, she contacted us and asked to do an interview. Excited by the opportunity, I accepted. Even if I am not the most articulate person to represent Blind Photographers, Qiana took...
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The Victoria and Albert Museum offers via Photographs Described for Blind and Partially Sighted Visitors. Currently this online collections has four historical images with descriptions for perusal. This section of the website looks at four very different historic photographs from the V&A’s collection. Each photograph is reproduced in colour and is accompanied by an...
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The scoop we use for our morning coffee is coffee colored. This makes it hard for me to see how much coffee is in the scoop. Instinctively, I tilt the scoop so that the nearest light falls across it rather than directly on it. The cross light brings out the texture of the grounds,...
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Britain’s Victoria and Albert Museum ran a photography course for some of its visually impaired patrons. The museum has put together the results in a nice website: Photographs by Blind and Partially Sighted Visitors. This is a collection of photographs taken by blind and partially sighted visitors to the Victoria and Albert Museum during...
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Not long ago, I heard about and joined this UK-based website, DAB Photography Online – Bringing Disabled and Able-Bodied Photographers Together. I have spent some time over the last week learning to navigate the site and to post to it. At first, I though it might replicate much of what Flickr does for me....
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Blind Photographers is now on twitter as blindphotogs. Come follow us. No jokes about who’s more the fool! Share on Facebook
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insightdiscover, has brought together several videos about Blind Photographers on YouTube. There are ten related videos, with a few more general videos. Here is a short video about NYC’s Seeing with Photography Collective. Share on Facebook
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