Blind Photography

• Blind photography: the very concept sounds like an oxymoron. But an intriguing and often striking exhibition of photographs in Riverside, California, argues that it emanates from the core of contemporary art. The show "Sight Unseen," at the California Museum of Photography until Aug.

http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1899017,00.html 10/2/2014

My Main Research

Sonia Soberats77-year-old Sonia Soberats only began photography classes in 2001, a decade after she lost her sight due to glaucoma.

Pete EckertWhen Pete Eckert found out he was going to lose his sight to Retinitis pigmentosa 27 years ago, he was well on his way to becoming an architect,

Kurt WestonPhotographer Kurt Weston shows himself in the process of obstructing the bed of a flatbed scanner to simulate the psychological and physical impact of being legally blind.

Kurt Weston

http://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/kurt-weston

The Image Fix

Pete Eckert

Pete Eckert, Electroman

One of Eckert's techniques involves using a composite body view camera mounted on a tripod. Focusing with notches carved into a focus rail, he throws his studio into total darkness, opens the shutter, and roams the space "painting" his image with light, using flashlights, candles, lasers and other devices.

http://www.business2community.com/travel-leisure/how-and-why-3-blind-photographers-create-their-art-0337092

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_1PAKEdBXc

Image courtesy of Sonia Soberats

A well-known member of the aforementioned Seeing With Photography Collective, Soberats lost her eyesight amid several traumatic life experiences. Her only son and daughter passed away within several years of one another, victims of Hodgkin’s Disease and Ovarian Cancer. Unlike many other impaired photographers, she did not become a photographer until after her blindness was fully realized.Her haunting, whimsical abstractions are often the focus of momentous, transformative happenings. Miss Soberats’ creations seem to be evocations of her emotionally taxing journey, and ultimately a powerful form of chaotic albeit beautiful expression.

Methodology• Week 1 Research what what blind photography mean and

look in to what it mean to myself.• Week 2 look up any equipment that may be needed and go to

any on going events/museums in London.• Week 3 Begin to working on trying to recreated works from

previous photographers I’ve look at. • Week 4 Begin to execute my ideas and discuss with peers of

the outcomes of my work so far.• Week 5+ further develop idea/work and additional research if

needed.

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