Seeing Beyond Sight – Blind Photographers Event
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Thanks to author Tony Deifell for letting us know about his upcoming book party and event. Seeing Beyond Sight is his collection of photographs taken by blind teenagers. SF Camerawork is hosting an exhibit through May 12, as well as a reception and book party on March 29 at 6 p.m.
Here’s a bit of Tony’s explanation of how he came to teach blind teenagers to take photographs, and put together the resulting book:
Seeing Beyond Sight” is about seeing in the broadest sense. I use the physical behavior of light as a metaphor for the book’s five chapters: Distortion, Refraction, Reflection, Transparence & Illuminance. Light is what makes it possible for the eye to see – and to make photographs – but we don’t usually see light itself.
I thought of these five chapters as a journey towards light – towards an illuminance that is beyond everyone’s eyesight – although the source of light is not fully known. The road is already dark enough as we wade through distortions and refractions to explore ourselves and our relationship with the world.
Ultimately, we may catch only a glimmer of a picture larger than us – an image of the world that is just beyond our full grasp.
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