There is a 2001 Brazilian movie, A Janela Da Alma (Window of the Soul), about blind photographers. The New York Times has a review of the movie. From the NY Times: “Brazilian filmmakers Joao Jardim and Walter Carvalho ponder the old adage “the eyes are the windows to the soul” as they explore...
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Scott Wyden Imagery has a nice post about “Being a color blind photographer“. It has its moments. I am not going lie and say I just get by because I don’t. I need help like other color blind photographers out there. In fact, when I was in college and taking...
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The BBC., via its BBC – Pods and Blogs, is again featuring the work of a blind photographer. The February 9, 2010, edition of this podcast talks with British photographer, Vince Thacker. Though accessibility should be incorporated into all websites, as usual on Pods and Blogs, it’s the things you do that are really...
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Dr Simon Hayhoe, Editor of ECO: On Blindness and the Arts and has written two books on the subject of blindness and art, God Money & Politics and Arts, Culture & Blindness. He lives in Leicester, UK. Photography by blind and visually impaired artists is fast developing into a new genre...
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LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired’s Insights exhibit was featured recently in the New York Times. “‘Insights’ Showcases Blind and Visually Impaired Artists” gives an nice overview of the exhibit and it artists. Now in its 20th year, “Insights” is the country’s pre-eminent selected exhibition of paintings, photographs and mixed-media pieces by legally...
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The American Printing House for the Blind has announced their Nineteenth Annual Juried Art Competition and Exhibition for Artists Who Are Visually Impaired or Blind. The exhibition, APH InSights 2010: Visions From the Mind, requires entries be submitted by April 1, 2010, for preschool through high school and April 15, 2010, for adults. Make...
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Not too long ago, I posted about A Conversation About the Film Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers. Well, that conversation has taken place. The Annenberg Space for Photography’s blog reports about how “Bruce Hall and Corinne Marinnan open our eyes to Blind Photography!“. The subject of the evening was a short film...
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Blind photographer and artist, John Dugdale, has been working with the Broadway production of the Miracle Worker. The production has done a nice job of featuring Dugdale and his images. The Miracle Worker has put on the web The Photography of John Dugdale with a video interview (reposted below) and a short...
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Spotted on Twitter, Connections magazine, published by Nxtbook Media for Pennsylvania’s Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry, published a story on a local blind photographer last February. The article, Blind Photographer Has an Eye for Business, features Matt Wilkerson, owner of  Coe Camera Shop. Wilkerson, who inherited his photography store from his father,...
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As spotted on Twitter, Bruce Hall with Corinne Marrinan are presenting A Conversation About the Film Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers Thursday, February 4, 6:30-8:00pm as part of the IRIS Nights Lecture Series at The Annenberg Space for Photography in LA. The film that they will be discussing, Dark Light,  is a...
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