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I was about to delete some apparently uninteresting video clips of my wanderings around the city, when I realised that they were full of people’s faces that were anything but uninteresting.

This has a special poignancy for me as someone with macular degeneration who cannot ordinarily recognise faces easily. Some of the pictures are appropriately out-of -focus and others have the effects of glare, which I deliberately haven’t altered. That’s pretty much how I’d see them, if I’d seen them.

These people most likely didn’t know I was filming them, and I didn’t realise it either until afterwards!

Once again, the camera lets me see things I wouldn’t otherwise see.

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Albany ARC holds summer transition program – WALB.com News – visually impaired students with ambitions. One aims to run her own photographic business. Trust me, somehwhere on this messy page, there is a video (Flash) and a text article.

Arts Victoria Funding – Blinkie Photography – tight arts funding jeopardises Andrew Follows’ exhibition.

Aurora: Local photographer sees through a different lens – Jim Braun Marfan’s Syndrome, which affects his eyes and many other things. Photography, however, gives him several benefits.

Authors@Google: Tony Deifell | Business Strategies 101 – Tony Deifell taught blind children photography, and learned what it means to see.

Blind Photographers on Facebook

Bllind Photography @ Losing Vision Gaining Insight – a feature on blindphotographers.org.

Capturing moments – a photography workshop in the Philippines included blind participants.

Field Test: Apple iPhone 4 Camera « The Phoblographer – some very strong features, but the iPhone 4 would not be everybody’s choice of primary camera.

Flickr: Help: Getty Images – your chance to have your images valued commercially.

Grants for Nonprofit Photography | eHow.com – USA sources of finance.

High Desert Sketches: Even Dust Devils Wear Prada In The Last Frontier – by George Covington, who is a photographer with about 10% normal vision. This is George in the day job, writing on this occasion about fashions.

In Blind Test iPhone 4 Camera Quality Bests All | AppCart – the 5 megapixel camera does well against several other phones and point-and-shoot cameras.

My world in Photography: By legally blind photographer Andrew Follows – My Nikon Life

New Book on Photography for the Web – SitePoint’s “Photography for the Web” looks really like a useful basic guide to the nuts and bolts of photography.

New photo of Eamon and myself – Blinkie Photography – Andrew Follows considers tha dvantages of manual camera settings.

New SeeAbility initiative encourages creativity (From Basingstoke Gazette) – project that encourages blind people to be creative inclues photography and other arts.
SeeAbility Web Site

One Day On Earth – The World’s Story is Yours to Tell – take part in a world-wide documentary project on 10/10/10

Photographers “Banned for Life” for Taking Photos in Public Parking Lot » Photography Bay – another confrontation between photographers and officers of the law, this time in Miami Florida. This is a situation, this article says, that is unfair to both parties. For an alternative view of photography in public places, visit
Here’s looking at you. ‘Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera’ at Tate Modern until 3 Oct – “There’s a moral blind spot at the heart of photography, writes Kerry William Purcell. It is a blind spot that was manifest in the recent outpouring of protestations and demonstrations concerning the possible criminalisation of street photography in London… ”

Some IPhone 4 Cameras Have Yellowing Problem – the iPhone 3 doesn’t have this. Maybe a white balance issue?

Top 10 iPhone photo apps | ZDNet – well, there are plenty of lists like this of iPhone apps, but this one was compiled on evidence of what apps photographers used when entering a competition.

Watch: Visually Impaired Photography Students at Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind | jacksonville.com – down-to-earth account of the way students were introduced to photography.

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Creative Work: Blind Photographers – Feminists With Disabilities -S. E. Smith appreciates the Blind Photographers site, not only for the images but also for the way members write about their work.

Ghana: Visually Impaired Benefits From Photography Training – allAfrica.com – visually impaired woman was one of the students on a recent course provided by Foundation for Female Photojournalists (FFP). The FFP is an art and media organization that seeks to empower the vulnerable in society.

Images Without Sight – this blog follows totally blind photographer Susan Gjolmesli as she participates in a photographic project organised by Tess McMillan.

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montgomery sideways – a blind stay-at-home Dad who has a lot to say about the state of the roads in his area and takes a still and a video camera with him at all times to record his findings.

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My story – nickbirchak’s Photos- powered by SmugMug – Nick is legally blind, and a course in black and white photography at college set him off on the royal road to photography.

Quiet Light Photography – Drew Bedo is an artist who works in large photographic formats. He is legally blind, having severely degraded vision in one eye only. Also visit
Legal blindness doesn’t stop photographer | Ultimate Fort Bend

Seeing Blind – Cyndy Otty has achromatopsia. She tries to explain how she sees, and illustrates this with her own photographs.

see(more) photography blog – several posts about guide dogs and how the author, Laura Landry, sees her world through the lens. One of her photos has been chosen to be part of the American Printing House exhibition later this year.
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Laura Landry’s HTML web site.

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It’s my pleasure to launch Blind With Camera School of Photography
(
www.blindwithcameraschool.org< a
virtual school with step-by-step tutorials for the visually impaired to get
started with photography and provide guidance to sighted photographer for
starting photographic workshops with local visually impaired people. This
website is in compliance with accessibility standard for the visually impaired.

This alternative approach along with physical workshops & training sessions
conducted by Blind With Camera will widen and deepen the creative and social
deliverable, enriching the blind and the sighted community, and inspire social
change.

In 2010, Blind With Camera project is going strong. To know about our recent
Pinhole workshops and coming exhibitions click on links below -
http://blindwithcamera.org/events-news/

To view new works click below
http://blindwithcamera.org/category/photo-gallery/

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Blind Insight LLC – a photography company funded in Seattle by William Madison, who is legally blind. He knows all about the possible physical and emotional effort involved in being a blind photographer. He will be exhibiting at theMaison Michel (1928 43rd Avenue E., Washington) this month. See
Madison Park Blogger: August Happenings for more details.

Blind photography, are you game? » Sumter Camera Club – at this event, participants will go off with a non-digital (yes, film!) disposable camera, and will see what they get without all their digital sophistications. Not sure this qualifies as blind photography, guys, unless I’m missing something.

Blinkie Photography – Andrew Follows’ new web site.

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Camera Plus Pro for iPhone Price Drops, Adds More Features « The Phoblographer – now 99 cents.

Fun With Photography « Losing Vision Gaining Insight – getting enjoyment from photography.

Photo Competition. | Blinkie Photography – post your reflective photo entry.

[Virtual School of Photography – Partho Bhowmick – announcement of the
Blind With Camera Photography School

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I have hardly ever paid any heed to photos OF blind people, which tend to be, in my experience, miserable images of pity, and often purely voyeuristic. Often, the sighted person’s idea of us blind people is that we somehow live in the dark. Never mind that someone who is totally blind may never have grasped the concept of darkness, and those of us who can still see a bit may not want to embrace the idea of darkness either.

That’s what drew me to
Blanco by Stefano de Luigi (article and slide-show).

Here, the photographer starts from white light (hence the title, “Blanco”, Italian for “white”). Add all the colours together, and, if they’re radiant colours, at least, they make white.

These photos are not eye-candy. Stefano de Luigi has spent several years photographing blind people in many situations, and understands the complexity of blind people’s lives. The photography may be highly intrusive, but mere voyeurism it ain’t.

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[Video] Blind Photography – Students at the Rancho Mirage, CA campus of the Braille Institute of America share their thoughts and photographs during a field trip to the Moorten Botanical Gardens in Palm Springs. Students range from partially sighted to totally blind.

Crossroads: Featured Photograph – this is part of the Blind Photographers’ site where a mem ber shows an image and puts some context around it. The member this time was Alex de Jong.

Field Review: Nikon D3s (Day 1) – visually impaired photographer takes this new camera for a test run.

Off the Wall: “BORDERLAND” by Thomas Ferrella – 9 portraits by this photographer are combined with poetry written in Braille on the photographs. These were exhibited earlier this year at the Wisconsin council of the Blind and Visually Impaired.

Onscreen ruler, magnifier, and more – Free Download A Day – this free portable app for Windows, PMeter, may help you edit your photos.

[DOC] WHITE STICK AS SYMBOL OF BLINDNESS – HISTORY – seems James Biggs, a photographer from Bristol, blinded in the First World War, was largely responsible for adopting the white stick as a symbol for blindness in the UK.

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Exhibit shows artists “inner vision” | courier-journal.com – last Saturday, there was an exhibition at the Carnegie Center for Art & History in New Albany featuring Louisville artists C.J. Pressma and Keith Kleespies, including photography.

Gadgets for the Visually Impaired – Design Concepts – several devices that may never come to market but are full of good ideas.

The Amazing Art of Disabled Artists – striking works by people with visual impairments and other disabilities.

Trey Ratcliff – NEIU Photography Blog – he is a travel photographer, blind in one eye, who uses HDR (high dynamic range) techniques to capture his images. See his site
Stuck In Customs HDR Photography

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Camera for the Blind by Nadeem Haidary » Yanko Design – as far as I know, this camera has only reached the concept stage so far.

Can We Talk Shop? » Overexposed – not aimed at blind photographers, but at anyone who may be considering photography as a profession. Some useful links are included.

Photographer captures nature under new light | Daily Titan – Kurt Weston’s latest work, “Seasons in the Prayer Garden”, is on show at Muckenthaler Cultural Center in Fullerton until March 28th. The photographs show natural subjects but with the light manipulated to show colours that he believes are healing. Also visit
Blind photographer’s work displayed in Fullerton

Photography and Blindness in London « marta douglass about the recent exhibition supported by PhotoVoice.

Reuben Krabbe » Foveas and Photographs – start of a series that explores the relationship between sight and photography.

Tactile Graphics Resources – useful information for creating tactile diagrams and maps.

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Color Blindness and Photography – RailPictures.Net Forums – discussion thread about dealing with photo editing.

Craig Royal: Featured Photographer | Blind Photographers – first of a new feature on Blind Photographers where one photographer gives an interview and shows some images. Craig Royal is a legally blindfine art photographer from Florida.

More on Craig Royal.

Moments the Blind Can See – MidnightEast » Blog Archive – blind photographers in Israel have an exhibition during March at the Windows Gallery at the Azrieli Center, Tel Aviv.

photographing blind, other ways to see – night, rain, lights – a photographer’s anxieties about worsening sight prompt thoughts about alternative ways of seeing.

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