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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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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More than two weeks ago I wrote about my excitement concerning the iPhone 3GS, because I figured it would be an accessible camera. By now I’ve got more than two weeks’ worth of practice behind me. So how did the iPhone work out for me as a camera? First of all, I think I...
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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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Photography is a visual medium, so it stands to reason that any problem with sight will have a detrimental effect on the quality of photos taken, right? Well maybe…. I’ll admit I’ve not put a lot of thought into this, but it occurred to me that there may be various areas where seeing things...
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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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(also posted here) This time last year I was bemoaning the general state of accessibility and new technology and grieving for the accessible camera that might never be (accessibility vaporware) But now, you get a fully accessible camera and you get a great smartphone to go with it, the iPhone 3GS. Reading the flood...
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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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