The Boston Globe has a wonderfully accessible photo blog, The Big Picture. As the blog describes itself, The Big Picture is a photo blog for the Boston Globe/boston.com, entries are posted every Monday, Wednesday and Friday by Alan Taylor. Inspired by publications like Life Magazine (of old), National Geographic, and online experiences like MSNBC.com’s...
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Vince, aka vip_uc, has a great resource for blind photography, Vince’s Parallax. As Vince puts it: The pages referred to here are about blind photographers and their work, techniques that anyone could use to take photos, and ways of representing the finished images. Vince has done an amazing job of bringing together the disparate...
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The Sight of Emotion project displays hotography by blind and visually impaired people. AIM: To aid blind and visually impaired communities to create a dialogue with the seeing world, creating awareness and educating public audiences of the needs and experiences of the visually disabled. I do not know what the status of the project,...
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A year ago, a photo editor at the Chapel Hill News suggested I check out the Strobist blog. I want home that day and have been hooked since. David Hobby, the longtime newspaper photographer, has caused quite a stir in photographic circles with his guide to and thoughts on lighting. From What is Strobist?:...
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For those of you on the British Isles, Brian Negus has a lively Flickr group for Visually-impaired photographers in the UK. Stop by and say hi. Share on Facebook
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Spotted on Fred’s Head Companion, the APH is calling for entries to its annual art exhibit, Insights. The APH InSights 2009: Visions From the Mind is the APH’s eighteenth annual juried art competition and exhibition for artists who are visually impaired or blind. Deadlines for Entry: April 1 for Preschool through High School and...
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The LightHouse is currently call for submissions to its 20th Insights exhibition. “The LightHouse is accepting up to five submissions of original works by artists who are blind or visually impaired for consideration for Insights 2009.” Submissions are due by Friday, April 24, 2009. Chosen entries will be shown in Fall 2009 at the...
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Spotted on the Talking Books Librarian post, there is a “Cool contest for young artists living with disabilities“. Accelerate, sponsored by VSA arts and Volkswagen of America, Inc., is an open juried exhibition for young disabled artists. The deadline for submission is June 19, 2009. There are several prizes, including a Grand Prize of...
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I saw a reference to this recently on Twitter: The Eye Care Center at SCCO announces that the “Call for Artists” for Shared Visions Art Exhibit 2009-2010 has begun. As in the previous four shows, this is a juried art exhibit in which all artworks have been created by artists who are blind or...
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We are a group of blind photographers. All of us have to contend with various degrees of visual impairment. If you look around on the internet, it seems there are other blind photographers and so a number of them was bound to use flickr to share photographs. The “blind photographers” flickr group was created...
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