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‹ Photo Notes · 9 října, 2012
Do you think a visually impaired person can take photographs? Any of us can lose sight; after the recent alcohol affair perhaps most of us realized for the first time in our lives how quickly and easily such a misfortune can happen. An injury, a congenital defect or an unexpected illness can be to blame. I wanted to try what it is like.
I decided to shoot a series of photographs with my eyes blindfolded. It isn’t the same as being truly blind. The differences are many – I knew what the environment looked like, the models, how light and lenses behave and so on. The main difference, though, was that at the end I could look at my photographs – and by the way pick several for you and edit them. The difference was that I was only playing blind man’s buff and when I’d had enough, I took off the mask. Blind photographers (yes, they exist) don’t have this choice.
I communicated with the models by sound, I held the camera at my eye as if I could see, because it is a position I’m used to, and in this position I somehow feel its axis and can aim at the model.
You can see the selected photographs and a short video here.