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No, I'm not crazy and this is not a joke page. The fact is that there are many blind and visually impaired people who take photographs in one way or another and there has never been a better time to do it in the technological age in which we live.
I hope this page will dispel any thought that "blind people can't....." (fill in the blank) and I hope there's enough here to get you started if you're a visually impaired person who fancies picking up a camera.
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.
This is a UK-based site, but that doesn't exclude material from elsewhere.
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A Critical Eye - Legally blind photographer captures challenges to handicapped - Traci Parks uses her architectural training to document problems in the built environment that beset disabled people. She runs her own company, Miracle Images. She has an exhibition called "What's wrong with this picture?" Unique Perspective, is like a career-cast by Traci herself.
A Welsh View - 'no photography' sign at museum with braille inscription. You can't leave a comment if you're blind because there's a visual-only captcha, although you could try using the Firefox browser with the WebVisum extension. The extension tries to solve CAPTCHAs, among other things.
Accessible Image a mailing list on freelists to discuss many forms of graphical images accessible to blind people, including photography. There are also several Art Beyond Sight mailing lists hosted by the National Federation of the Blind.
Accessibility Features of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
Alice Wingwall is a photographer and sculptor with a passion for photographing buildings. With the aid of her husband and colleagues and auto-focus cameras, her retinitis pigmentosa has not prevented her from taking photographs.
AlternativePhotography.com - John Dugdale and Flo Fox are fine art photographers who live and work with disabilities.
Art Beyond Sight - a one stop resource for bringing art and culture to people with visual impairments. The site includes a Tactile Printing section and many other resources.
Art sheds light on impairments - an exhibit at Georgina Arts Centre, #sutton West, Ontario, Canada, called 'Legally Blind' illustrates the effects of visual and hearing impairments. Unlike most of the entires on this page, it is not, as far as I know, art generated by a disabled person.
Artist opens photography up to the blind - an artist who has worked with someone who has been blind from birth has come up with ways of capturing images that can be turned into tactile print.
Attracted to Light - Books: Doug Starn, Mike Starn. A Blind Spot Book
BBC NEWS | Technology | Reading 'to go' for blind people - the portable K-NFB reader.
BBC Radio 4 - In Touch -25 July 2006 - transcript and audio include an item on photography for blind people. Real Audio.
Best of Blind Photographers - blog giving news and photos from the Blind Photographers' Flickr Group. Atom Feed RSS Feed
Beyond Sight by the Visually Impaired at India Habitat Centre - 17th to 21st October, 2007
Beyond Sight: Blind Photography in China - appeal for funds to train facilitators. The aim is to increase public awareness of blindness and promote advocacy.
Blind at the Museum - this event (conference and exhibits) in California in 2005 tried to re-frame ideas about access to visual art. KQED Radio 'Forum' program on this (mp3 audio)
Blind Eye Photography blog. "it takes longer sometimes to get "that" shot, but it is my passion and when I do get it, sometimes I forget that I am legally blind"
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Blind people taking pictures in Bolivia - start of a discussion thread.
Blind Photographer is a Man of Vision - Pete Eckert, having learnt sculpture and martial arts, uses his senses and imagination to fill in what his eyes no longer give him. See his portfolio for, the Artists Wanted competition, which he won
Blind photographer sees the big picture - Georg Gordon has an important role in documenting the local school baqsketball games.
Blind photographer takes aim at life - Sue McLeod is a blind photographer in Sydney Australia. This article looks at her work, the Local Eyes Project and an exhibition in March 2008. Local Eyes Sydney Web Site - may not be very accessible to everyone.
Blind Photographers - video in which several blind photographers describe how they work.
Blind photographers exposed at Jerusalem exhibit
Blind Photography - the Blind Photographers exhibition in Israel. The site is in English and Hebrew. See also YouTube Video: Button - Blind Photography
Blind Photography as Art Concept - maybe there's none so blind as those who can see.
Blind Photography Listmania list by Timothy O'Brien of Oberazzi Blog fame
Blind Sided Studio & Gallery blog by a professional photographer who lost an eye in an accident.
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Blind Snapper's Animal Magic - Alison Bartlett has hearing that's sensitive enough to track the wildlife she photographs. Story from the Sun, UK. Her photos are going into an exhibition in Hampshire, UK.
Blind use cameras to capture their world - the work of the Local Eyes project in Sydney, Australia, that includes 3 blind photographers.
Blind With Camera - "Empowering the Visually Impaired through the Art of Photography" - a photography project in Mumbai, India. The site includes the philosophy of the project and the examples of the work of participants. Also visit A Visual Journey of my Mind's Eye. Blind With Camera - article from the Hindu about the same exhibition. The video, A Blinding Clarity for Photography, shows students from the project, including Kanchan Pamnani, a blind solicitor.
BlindArt is a UK charitable organisation that encourages visually impaired people to participate in the visual arts.. Exhibitions include "Sense and Sensuality", hinting at the organisation's multi-sensory approach. To keep up with artists and events, you might like to join the BlindArt Forums
Brian Higgins - video, California photographer, has lost most of his vision to retinitis pigmentosa, and still is a photographer. he also teaches people to use technology. This video is in MP4 format.
Bruce Hall's Photography - hge might not make a big thing about it himself, but Bruce is legally blind and takes some stunningly perceptive images. More background and Bruce Hall's Web Site and Bruce Hall's nature photography slideshow.
Camera sees what photographer cannot - Chris Balthrop can see detail in his photos he cannot see at the time they were taken.
Camera Selector - search for a camera that matches your requirements. You can search on, and learn about, a wide range of camera characteristics. You can also get detailed reviews of each camera that matches your criteria.
Can you feel it? - entry from Brendan McGetrick's blog featuring the work of 3 blind photographers. There are video clips and links to books here, and thoughts about how blind people may take and appreciate photographs.
Cardiff University showcases photography by visually impaired - these images originate in the 'Sight of Emotion' projject in London and Mexico City. Organised by PhotoVoice
[Video] CNN's Paula Hancocks meets Israel's blind photographers, challenging perceptions that only the sighted can take a good photo.
Color Rules of Thumb - a useful exploration of the effects of colour in various contexts.
Color-blind lensman shares wonders of the wild - Romy Ocon has a life-long colour deficiency, but tells of how he gets it right when taking photographs. From Luzon Inquirer, Philippines.
Current TV, UK on Blind Photographers - viudeo includes Bruce Hall.
Cyclops - photography by Albert Watson, a one-eyed photographer.
David Cockayne is a registered blind photographer in Leeds, UK.
digital-vision a Yahoo! group for blind photographers. If you want to subscribe by e-mail to avoid the dreaded visual verification in Yahoo! Groups, send a blank e-mail to digital-vision-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. Don't put anything in the subject line or body of the e-mail.
Disabled Photographers' Society is a UK-based charity that runs photographic competitions and a forum, and loans adapted equipment to members. Disabled individuals, friends, carers and groups may join. Membership £7.50 a year individuals, £11 friends, £20 groups.
Documenting downtown: Photographer sees Andover through his own lens - Frank LaVallo has been legally blind since 1977, and has been taking photos of Andover, Mass. that show the changes in the town.
Emu Namae, blind Japanese illustrator.
Even a colorblind person can color-correct a photo - Chris Nicholson explains how you can use RGB values for colour correction even if, like him, you're red-green blind.
Evgen Bavcar, Slovenian blind photographer, was the subject of a TV documentary in about 2001. The link takes you to a page with a Quicktime movie of his exhibition. Please also refer to Malneirophrenic Murmurings of a Neuromantic - Evgen Bavcar, blind Slovenian photographer and Light My Life.
Exhibit explores world of deafblind - Natalie Schönfeld Howard, a Georgina resident, will exhibit her latest body of work, Perceptions of Light and Legally Blind, at the Georgina Arts Centre and Gallery from April 27 to May 25, 2008.
You can use your Yahoo! idea if you want to join (but you may have probelms with the visual verification used on Yahoo sites).
Focusing on the Picture - how would Susan Povinelli be able to conduct a photography class when she's blind? She lets us in on the secrets.
Freeze frame: See how the blind see - first blind photography exhibition in India shows the abstract world seen by blind people that might puzzle those with sight.
Giving the blind a look-in - the Samsung Touch Sight Camera has tactile and audio features. Not only does the tactile display give the photographer a touchable image , but the camera also records 3 seconds of sound when the shot is taken. This camera made it to non. 50 in Time Magazine's Best 50 Inventions of the Year, 2008. Another article on this camera.
George A. Covington "to photograph is to see". Listed on National Arts Disability Center Arts & Disability Web Tour. Read biography.
Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe" - NASA has released a book entitled "Touch the Universe" by Noreen Grice, which has tactile and coloured images of many space objects. Book details Video profile of Noreern Grice, where she explains how this passion came about. Readers comments from the NASA site. Readers who ordered this book were also interested in Touch the Sun by the same author.
He Saw a Hummingbird by Norma Lee Browning - photographer going blind has an encounter with a hummingbird that changes his life.
Henry Butler Photographs - the page includes a video exhibition.
Holleen Lawrence and Becca Hodges are a mother daughter team who take mainly photos of people. Holleen is blind.
Hong Kong blind photography exhibition news from TVB - video on YouTube with no English soundtrack or subtitles.
Humor & Art: Blind Photographer Building Career Off Laughs - a feature on blind Oakland photographer Pedro Hidalgo. The page also has a review of "Blind at the Museum", an exhibition at Berkeley Art Museum, March 2005. This page is part of Proyecto Vision, a site for disabled Latinos. In the Eye of the Beholder also describes the conference that took place in connection with the exhibition.
Insightdiscover's YouTube Playlist gathers together many videos concerning blind photographers.
Inshights 2008 - exhibition of artworks by blind and visually impaired artists.Showing October 2 – December 12, 2008. San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery in City Hall, Lower Level.
Invisible Power - review of this Japanese book that celebrates blind photographers.
JPG Magazine, 30th April, 2007 - The Blind Photographer - Nicole Slaughter tells of how she became a photographer while having visual limitations caused by albinism.
John Dugdale, blind photographer - book Life's Evening Hour.
Legally blind photographer captures beauty of nature - superb images by Bruce Hall. Find more on his web site, http://www.visualsummit.com/
Live Life Trailer - film about a Chinese blind photographer.
Local photographer captures experiences, moments at Cummer Museum - the museum, in Jacksonville, Florida, has hosted several community events, including 'Women of Vision', featuring blind women photographers.
Local photographer goes abroad - Meg Majors is to document the lives of deaf-blind students in Ghana with photography.
Making Tactile Graphics - RNIB guide.
Marcia Smilack - reflectionist - synesthesia and photography
My Newton Blog | Photography - Thomas Brand describes how he re-discovered photography after a disappointing start.
NHK japan TV New Yorkers - Flo Fox 1994 - video about the famous New York blind photographer, Flo Fox. Mainly in Japanese. Part 2.
Oberazzi - photo blog of a legally blind photographer.
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On Disabilities in the Arts - the frustrations of trying to provide arts opportunities for disabled people at a museum. The article focuses primarily on blind and partially sighted people.
Otto Lizel, a photographer who went blind, and has been an inspiration to other blind photographers. His legacy is several long-lived books, including Photo Composition.
Passionate Focus 2007: Art exhibit by legally blind - the exhibition ran in Chicago in September, 2007. One of the exhibitors is Charlie Grover, a photographer with central vision loss. More details at Guild for the Blind.
Patricia Youngquist - Impressionist Pinhole Photographer - she is legally blind and wonders what illegally blind is! She photographs things the way she sees them through a camera she built herself. Patricia does not try to replicate 'sighted' photography. This is a radio interview from New York 1010 WINS in Real Audio, so you will need RealPlayer or Real Alternative installed to hear it. The menu on the left leads to many examples of Patricia's work.
Persistence Of Vision; Partially Blind Photographer Stays Focused - Bob Weinberg was a photographer for 30 years before a retinal disease struck him. But, as this article shows, he has re-learned the skills that enable him to take and develop photographs.
Pete Eckert of Sacramento, CA, says that he is a very visual person, and wants to communicate with sighted people as well as blind people. There is also a video on being a blind photographer from the Today Show (not sure whose!).
Photo Talk Radio - 6/23/2007 - includes visual art by visually impaired photographers Bruce Hall and Pete Eckert.
Photographer Found Abstract Forms in Urban Locales - a tribute to Michael Richard, rock musician and photographer, who was legally blind in later life.
Photography: A New Angle on Seeing - article on a site called "Essence of Life" about a group of photographers in Israel. The article explains what motivates the group, and some of the techniques they use.
PhotographyBLOG - Photography News, Reviews, Articles, Gallery, Forums, Film and Digital. Includes information relevant to the UK as well as North America.
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Photography by a blind old man - Lloyd Gregory explains how he carries on with photography while managing the difficulties of macular degeneration.
Photography for the Visually Impaired - an account of a course provided by York University in the early 1990s. From the British Journal of Visual Impairment. Unfortunately, this is a PDF file made of a graphic, so blind readers may need to print it and then scan it or some similar process. I am not sure that this article is still available on the Internet unless you pay a £15/day subscription!
Photos of Japan by blind photographers. Includes touch-and-feel pictures.
Photos with a light technique - sight-impaired artists work with exposures. Some insight into the way a group of New York blind photographers produced their work.
Photovoice is an organisation that encourages participatory photography. Beyond Sight: A multi-sensory exhibition is taking place in London from 3rd to 8th December 2007.
Proof, 1991, Australia, 90 min., Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse, Drama - a film about a blind photographer. Love triangle involving a blind photographer. Why would a blind man take photographs?
Ralph Baker, (refusing to be) Blind Photographer - New York street photographer has developed severe retinal problems, but that doesn't stop him earning a living.
Rebecca learned to shed light on country life at Charleston - Rebecca Marr, from the Highlands of Scotland, teamed up with blind photographer Rosita Mackenzie to amke an exhibit suitable for blind patrons, sponsored by the Edinburgh Botanical Garden. Another article about Rosita MaKenzie is Rosita's aiming to share her world in the Scotsman.
Sam Smith's photos concentrate on escaping the humdrum world, and humour. He is visually impaired. He has a mobile exhibition in Southern California.
Seeing Beyond Sight: Photographs by Blind Teenagers - a project and a book by Tony Deifell (Jan 2007) by Chronicle Books. You will be able to give feedback if you become a member of omidyar.net. KQED (SF) Radio Page KQED audio discussion (mp3) There is more information on the background to this project in the article Lighting the Way from Edutopia Magazine, July, 2007. Video: the founder of the project describes its philosophy.
Seeing with Photography Collective based in New York City, the Collective includes blind, partially sighted and fully sighted people. The people behind the "Shooting Blind" exhibition. Lifting the Blindfold is a video featuring the voices of members.
Shared Visions, an exhibit at the Southern California College of Optometry, Fullerton. The free exhibit represents 34 blind painters and photographers. The web page has an Audio Slide Show
Shooting Blind - life experiences of blindness, photos by blind people and photos of blind people.
Shooting Blind, photographs by members of the Seeing with Photography Collective. This was an exhibition, now offered as a book.
Show reveals work of blind photographer - Rosita McKenzie photographic show in the Traverse Theatre café in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Sight of Emotion - blind photography project in Mexico, sadly the video is no longer available on the Channel 4 TV web site.
Sightsavers launches young painting and photography comps - for children up to age 11, these UK competitions set out to raise awareness of the value of sight. Entries on the topic 'The sight I would most like to see' must be in by Sept 12, 2008.
Soho Gallery, New York - established by a group of New York press photographers, this gallery hosts a wide range of events, including the recent Seeing With Photography Collective exhibition. Unfortunately the gallery has put up a lot of its information in graphical format, which is useless to blind people and search engines alike.
StillImage - a company in Bristol that aims to make the world a better place through photography, including the provision of tactile displays for blind people in public venues.
Tactile Graphics: an Overview and Resource Guide
Tactile Photography - the "Senses" Project in Boston, Ma, created by Venezuelan artist Mariliana Arvelo to produce tactile images used by blind, sighted and deaf-blind people. This second article shows some of the images and describes how they were made.
Terry Hammon, uses a manually-focused Minolta camera. She has learned to be sharply observant by concentrating on detail.
[English/Hebrew] The Blind Photographer
The Blind Photographer: Finding beauty through the eyes of an unlikely shutterbug - Nicole Slaughter relates how she uses photography as a way to see the intricate details of the world and to share that beauty with others.
The camera's eye - photography students at Beit Ha'iver (Center for the Blind) in Herzliya, Israel, get some stunning results.
The Colorblind Photographer - includes photographs, commentary and some tricks of the trade.
The Light Paintings of Steven Erra - Steven Erra is a member of the Seeing with Photography Collective.
The View From Here - Visual Art by Artists who are Visually Impaired and Blind.
tim o'brien photos - tim is a legally blind photographer in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, who gets the camera to see for him what he can't see for himself. Tim's photos have been widely published, and prints are available from the web site.
TODAY'S ZAMAN, Turkey: Visually impaired photographer works to open exhibit - Selman Devecioglu hoped to display his photos for Disability Week in May 2007 in Turkey.
Tricks of Eye and Spirit Lorianne Schaub comments on Annie Dillard's "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek".
Visual Inspiration - Michael Walsh, legally blind photographer in Avon, MA, USA, had an exhibition in the local library in March, 2008. Every picture tells a story.
Visually impaired photographers - links and comments on Metafiler.
Work by blind photographer goes on show - free exhibition at Edinburgh's Botanical Garden, July 2007.
wright images is the website of Robert Wright, who is legally blind and does publicity work in the field of technology addressing the barriers that disabled people face.
Yoshiko Murakani has worked with blind photographers. Prix de la Fondation CCF pour la photo. 1999. Book published by ActeSud .
Zychem Ltd - swell paper, tactile diagram fusers and tactile learning aids for visually impaired people, including the Talking Tactile Tablet.
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