A member of the blind photographers community has been hihlighted this past week! Craig Royal | Best news photos: All Eyes photo blog | tampabay.com & St. Petersburg Times. Check out the interview in BEHIND THE LENS, YOUR LENS Craig Royal is an award winning visually impaired fine art photographer / digital artist from...
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Photographers contact Playboy daily, hoping for a chance to shoot models and become part of the Playboy legacy. Two prominent blind photographers—Bruce Hall and Peter Eckert—contacted Playboy expressing their interest in working with us. We thought it was an interesting idea and agreed to give them the opportunity to photograph a Playmate, Miss June...
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After having gone nearly completely blind, there was a certain amount of pride in the fact that at least, photography still worked for me, and that I still considered myself to be a photographer, and a blind photographer at that. I also need to say that I don’t have much visual input. Not enough...
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“I know I am new, but I feel like the whole world has opened up to me through this group and photography.” This came to BP’s inbox today form one of our members.  The photographer, bbrasley, has chronicled her transition into photography on her blog, Losing Vision Gaining Insight, in her post, Blind Photography....
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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 vision...
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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 the color course I...
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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 in the field...
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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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