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May 27th 2009 06:54

Sight Unseen: Photographs by Blind Photographers

Annie Hesse, Eiffel Tower

A perpetual wanderer, Hesse has lived all over the world, a camera never far from her side. She says that she sees "rough impressions, like Matisse at his vaguest" and only with one eye. She makes photos based on hunch, conjecture and curiosity. "In the chaos of a foreign place," she says, "I might be attracted to something about the color, or the sound, or vague forms. I'll be right in front of it and not know what it is. So I'll capture it. Later, I use the picture to figure out what it was that I saw."

Evgen Bavcar, The Flow of Time

Renowned in Europe but little known in the United States, Bavcar lost his eyes in two separate childhood accidents. Of his work, he says, "I have a private gallery, but, unfortunately, I am the only one who can visit it. Others can enter by means of my photographs, but they do not see the originals, just the reproductions."

Alice Wingwall, Lapidarium

Though her images appear to be constructed of photographs, the primary building blocks of Wingwall's work are actually memory. Once an architectural history major, she lost her sight, gradually, to retinitis pigmentosa. Now completely blind, she is the archivist of a private memory museum. Only after combining, reordering and reimagining does she release a work into the world of the sighted. "Though I've lost my sight, I haven't lost my vision," she says.

Pete Eckert, Electroman

"I'm a very visual person" says photographer Pete Eckert, "I just can't see." Based in Sacramento, California, Eckert began to pursue photography only after going completely blind in 1980. To him, blindness gives him an advantage. "Sighted photographers always talk about the difficulty of what they call 'seeing.' I tell them 'If you can't see, it's because your vision is getting in the way." 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.

Bruce Hall, Limpet

Afflicted with numerous eye conditions, Hall retains highly limited sight. For him, cameras and other optical devices are a means of better perceiving the world around him. "It's beyond being in love with cameras," he says. "I need cameras."

*Images and information sourced from Time here.

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