George Covington on Fred’s Head

APH’s Fred’s Head blog has a detailed bio of, article on and interview with blind photographer and disabilities activist, George Covington, in George Covington’s Method for Using Photography to Enlarge Images

Sighted people tend to take photographs to capture an image of a loved one’s face, to have a visual record of a person, place or event that they don’t want to forget. For George Covington, a camera is more than a means to help him remember — it’s a tool that has helped him to see.

George was born legally blind with 20/400 vision in both eyes. Due to a combination of astigmatism, nastagmus, eccentric fixation and myopia, his eyesight was not optically correctable. His vision impairment was no match for a strong drive to succeed. After attending and graduating from college, and then from law school, George has worked as an attorney, a journalism professor, an author and as a Press Aide and Special Assistant for Disability Policy
(1989-93) to the Vice President of the United States.

Kodak hosts an essay and gallery by Covington, To Photograph is to See. Definitely worthwhile.

I would love to see Covington’s book, “Let Your Camera do the Seeing: The World’s First Photography Manual for the Legally Blind“. Does anyone know where to get a copy?

Tags: article, blind, disabilities, photographer, vision, vision impairment

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