Photographs by Blind Photographers

[jun_ea]

This certainly captured my attention. Photographs by sight-impaired. Check out this Yahoo! news video. Feel free to

comment.

 

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=9652665&ch=4226714&src=news

[jason_hall5]

That is wonderful! A great story. On a different note, I met a fella two weeks ago that had been color blind his entire life. Most folk I know who are color blind just have a hard time with certain color groups, but this guy says he only saw black and white, no color at all.

 

Three weeks before I met him he went into sergery (nothing to do with his eyes) and when he woke up....he could see full color. This guy has been an amature photographer for years and I am impressed with his images. But now he can see them in color for the first time! He said the first thing he saw when he woke up was a yellow flower. That is now his favorite.

 

BTW, I was in a room full of folks that have known him for years in the local camera club that confirm his story. Just blew me away.

 

Jason

[lex_jenkins]

Check out the movie "Proof" with Hugo Weaving and Russell Crow in which Weaving plays a blind photographer. The compelling character study makes it worth sitting through a somewhat uneven movie and slightly strained plot.

[matthew_newton]

I don't really envy anyone who does not have sight or who lacks color vision, but in someways it would be cool to be able to see in B&W at will, especially for composing B&W photography. I guess you just have to train your eye to see the tonalities.

[Damon DAmato]

Just yesterday, in response to someone on the Street forum looking for volunteer opportunities, I posted a link to volunteermatch.org. On the first page of listings, I found <a href="http://www.volunteermatch.org/search/org6995.jsp">this one</a>, for someone to teach photography at a Braille center. Seemed interesting.

[steve_robb1]

That's really interesting. I'm planning on spending some time as a 'blind' person in and around town, just to experience it, and also to get a feel of peoples reactions, the way you're treated etc. One thing I want to do while I'm doing this is to take a few rolls of 'blind photo's', I have no idea exactly how that'll work! I'm imagining taking an old rangefinder, sling it around my neck, and listen out for interesting things... we'll see...