Albert Watson at Young Gallery – IDbazaar – Home Page – Design & Art sourcing website » Blog Archive – Albert Watson is blind in one eye, and has had a high-profile photographic career, including photos for magazines, fashion and royalty.

Being a color blind photographer — Scott Wyden Imagery – some of the problems, and some useful sites.

Blind people in Delhi click photographs – dnaindia.com – more good stuff about the ‘Blind With Camera’ project in India.

[Video] blind photography feb 1, 2010, 5:47 PM – girl takes pictures with blindfold on, and challenges you to do the same.

Beyond Sight: Blind Photography in China | GlobalGiving – support blind people’s photographic activities in China, with the aim of reducingthe stigma of visual impairment.

ItalyTraveller experience. | The image museum – he museum, in Florence, includes the Touch Gallery, where some of the images are presented in tactile form.

I love this book! | dTour Photography – student describes “The Black Book of Colors”, which has no colors, but has raised diagrams and braille text, emulating the world as experienced by a blind child.

Make Your Travel Pictures Talk: Fotobabble – this service will let you add a soundtrack from your microphone to photos you upload to it.
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Norman Taylor: A shed load of art – Theatre & Arts, Entertainment – Belfasttelegraph.co.uk – when he started to lose his sight, Norman Taylor took many photographs of his garden shed. Some of them are soon to appear in an exhibition. Also visit
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An iPad Camera? | tim o’brien photos – future iPad models may have a camera, and give VI photographers a large display to work with.

Dog’s Eye View – the author, with a couple of physics degrees and a couple of dogs, makes use of photography and video in her blog. One of the dogs is her guide dog.


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[Video] Lifting the Blindfold;The Seeing With Photography Collective | CameraSLRreviews.com – Mozilla Firefox#vLifting the Blindfold;The Seeing With Photography Collective | CameraSLRreviews.com – the video shows the light-painting techniques used by New York’s Seeing With Photography Collective. This is not a new item, but is well worth watching again.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park University Project – If I’m reading this right, 5 Huddersfield University students are looking at the market for potential Friends of the Park. The Park functions, amongst other things, as a place to display the sculptures of Henry Moore and other sculptors. Included in the blog is an
article on blind photography, though I must admit I’m not sure I get the connection.

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Craig Royal

Meet Craig Royal. Craig, a legally blind photographer from Florida, is inaugurating our new monthly series of featured photographers. Each month, Blind Photographers will present a member of our community with images and an interview.

BP:  Tell us a little about yourself.

CR: Being creative has been a major impulse in my life since my teenage years. I earned a BFA in crafts from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1982. I had concentrated in woodworking furniture design. In 1983 I was awarded a professional fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. From 1983 to 1990 I had exhibited fine woodworking in galleries in the Mid-Atlantic and Pacific Northwest. From 2000 to 2007 I had dabbled in stone and mixed media sculpture.

A Blinding Light 5: On Flickr I have a set titled Visual Impairment Abstracts that attempt to represent my visual impairment. "A Blinding Light 5" is a radial blur of parking lot markings that was achieved with photoshop. By placing the centerpoint in the right place an eye shape will appear and a lens flair is added to represent my white blind spot.

BP: What brought you into photography?

CR: My interest in photography started in 2007. Being frustrated with visual impairment, a lack of patience and poor concentration my creative interests shifted from three dimensions to two dimensions. With photography the results where more immediate and I could rely on the cameras ability to focus instead of relying on my eyes, which was quite liberating.

BP: What equipment and techniques do you use?

CR: I shoot with a Nikon D90 and use Photoshop to edit and manipulate images. In oder to see the computer screen I use a 4x telescope mounted on a frame similar to what surgeons use while operating. I have enough usable vision to use the cameras viewfinder.

BP:What is your visual impairment?

Killing Time To Live In the Moment: "Killing Time To Live In the Moment" is one of my philosophical creations that is a composite of three different images layered together.

CR: I have a congenital form of optic atrophy and have been legally blind since birth. My vision had been 20/200 corrected up until 1992 when a white blind spot developed in the center of the visual field in both eyes. After the blind spot stabilized my vision was, and currently is, 20/400. My peripheral vision is blurred so I miss out on a lot of detail and has an impressionist quality about it. The white blind spot adds a surreal element.

BP: How do you think your images are affected by your eyesight?

Apart from trying to express my visual reality by way of a visual art form my desire to see more of the detail that surrounds me, though it being after the fact, plays a part in my choices of subject matter. Being very nearsighted I am not drawn to landscape photography.

BP: How do you ’see’ photography’?

CR: Due to my nearsightedness I see photography closeup. On another level it is a visual aide. On a deeper level it satisfies the Muse.

Persona: Water is a favorite subject of mine. Especially reflections on water. I found by shooting at a slow shutter speed the light reflection will expand and take on a three dimensional look. I have a particular location where I stand and take 300 to 400 shots and once uploaded on to the computer I'll go through them to see if anything catches my imagination. "Persona" is an example where the profile of faces are suggested in the reflections. I will manipulate the image if need be in order to make it more obvious.

Craig has a profile here on BP. You can also find him on Flickr.

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Blind With Camera » Photo Gallery – work from blind photographers in Mumbai.

Images Without Sight – “Process is as much an artistic experience as the object created. In this project, we follow a photographer who is blind, crafting her personal experience into a public one that can be shared by others.”

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UK Gov nationalises orphans and bans non-consensual photography in public « grassroots issues – far-reaching changes in UK law on copyright may go unnoticed by most of us. Photography in public may in effect be banned, at least if the photography is digital.

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Apple iPad

Apple’s new iPad has had me doing some thinking about its potential impact fro the visually impaired, particularly for blind photographers. Reading an article today (thanks, Dad) about a new e-book reader software, Blio, soon to be put out by a company run by Ray Kurzweil, prompted me to consider a new issue, accessible photography books (and magazines). I rarely read books about photography. The font is universally too small, the books too heavy and there are no audio editions. The iPad has the possibility of changing this.

Blio is supposedly designed to enrich the e-reading experience with audio, video and web content. On a device like the iPad, with its large, high-resolution color screen, we could see the release of more photography-related media. With text-to-speech, we could even see the advent of accessible photography books and magazines.I can imagine looking at full-screen images while listening to the accompanying text. Not only would this a be a great format for re-releasing books by the masters, but this would also be a great format for every photographer with a story to tell. Scott Bourne has already expounded about the iPad’s potential as a digital portolio. On his Photofocus blog post, What the Apple Tablet Will Mean to Photographers, Bournes writes that “(t)he portable portfolio will get an amazing jump-start because of the new tablet, and all the competition that follows it.” The next step is for photographers to publish e-books, through sites like Blurb, for the iPad and the tablet platform in general.

Tim O’Brien is a regular columnist on Blind Photographers. Legally blind, Tim writes about accessibility, photography and, occasionally, both together. You can find out more about Tim on his blog or by following him on twitter.

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aAuthors@Google: Trey Ratcliff – blind in one eye, Trey Ratcliff is a well-known travel photographer. Here, he describes how he captured his High Dynamic Range (HDR) images.

Blind With Camera: Images from a world that is not seen | The Better Indiar – Blind With Camera is based in Mumbai, India, and has recently exhibited members’ work at a public festival.

Blindness, Photography and Art | Blind Photographers simonhayhoe looks at blind photography as a new art genre, and picks out some of its unique characteristics.

Photography – A Retrospective Insight from a Visual and Hearing Impaired Perspective | Bradford Smith Photography – Bradford Smith, on the Gold Coast of Australia, explains the meaning to him of creating images. A beautiful piece of writing.>

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A Janela Da Alma

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 and perception in their 2002 documentary A Janela Da Alma (Window of the Soul). Beginning with an interview with Brazilian jazz musician Hermeto Pascoal, Carvalho and Jardim attempt to make sense of how the musician perceives his world with a pair of impaired eyes that appear to simultaneously look in different directions. From there, the Brazilian co-directors interview a number of famous subjects with varying degrees of ocular health, ranging from the non-vision impaired director Wim Wenders to blind photographer Evgen Bavcar, while both the filmmakers and the interview subjects ponder how their lives and existences would be different had their abilities or inabilities to see the world around them been different. Released in Brazil in the summer of 2002 to mixed reviews, A Janela Da Alma was screened at a number of film festivals around the world in late 2002 into early 2003. ~ Ryan Shriver, All Movie Guide”

Here is the trailer with subtitles:

Janela da Alma – Trailer from MOVIE&ART on Vimeo.

Window of the Soul is available online and I have added it below, but it is in multiple languages with no subtitles. English subtitles are available online in several places, including here, but I have not figured out how to watch the film full screen and see the subtitles. I can not find it on Netflix either, so I have not seen the entire film.

There are segments of the documentary on YouTube. including these segment featuring Wim Wenders.

Any help finding the documentary with subtitles in its entirety would be appreciated.

Tim O’Brien is a regular columnist on Blind Photographers. Legally blind, Tim writes about accessibility, photography and, occasionally, both together. You can find out more about Tim on his blog or by following him on twitter.

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[Video] A Sense of Sight – The New York Times – John Dugdale explains the process he now uses as a blind photographer.

Adorama announces the APPOS, the first annual iPhone App Awards for Photography : Picture Business – iPhone app and iPhone photo contests.

APH Insights 2010: Call for Entries | Blind Photographers – the American Printing House for the Blind invites artists of all ages to take part in their 2010 competition. Entries in by April 1st, 2010.

Artur Lesniak: Going further – SP4 Project – Photography – sighted photographer wants blind person to learn photography, display own and blind person’s photography together.

Bruce Hall and Corinne Marinnan open our eyes to Blind Photography! – The Annenberg Space for Photography – a conversation about the film ‘Dark Light’, involving some well-known blind photographers.

I want to drastically improve my photography. | Ask MetaFilter – legally blind photographer wants more mastery of the camera. A very useful discussion thread.

Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2010 « Journeys and Journals – festival in Mumbai includes a lot of visual art, including blind photography. Also visit

They stepped out to lend a helping hand – Mumbai – City – The Times of India

Muckenthaler Cultural Center – Seasons in the Prayer Garden – photographs by prominent legally blind photographer, Kurt Weston until March 28th. – Muckenthaler Cultural Center, thrTel. 714-738-6595

Nikon Audio – Blinkie Photography – Nikon sound positive about providing sound for accessibility on the D90.

Planet Earth Planet Art. – Blinkie Photography – blind photographer Andrew Follows has a photo accepted for this book in aid of Friends of the Earth.

The Bigger Picture – The Archives of Visibility – Merry A. Foresta of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative surveys the field of blind photography.

The Last Leaf Gardener – “visually challenged,tenacious woman writes about her observations of society; her urban gardening experiences, her Twin Tandem cycling adventures, and her unique art-work that she sells on her web-site, www.turtlepondart.net” – the art is photo-art.

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Scott Wyden Kivowitz

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 needed help then. My color blindness isn’t as bad as some others. Some people have it really bad. I get some orange and browns mixed up. Sometimes a dark blue and black can look the same. For me it depends on the colors that are next to each other and then other colors surrounding them. When it is dark out it makes it really tough.

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Scott graciously includes us in his list of resources. Red the full essay at Being a color blind photographer — Scott Wyden Imagery.

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Image by Vince Thacker

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 interesting. Vince Thacker is a blind photographer. He described how a visual medium fors for him and how he presents his photographs on-line.

Read more at BBC – Pods and Blogs.

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