blind photographers

A new company may have solved one of my biggest challenges as a visually-impaired photographer. Manual focus is out of the question for me. Automatic focus is a gamble as it often picks the wrong subject to focus on. I have too many shots that have the background in sharp focus while the subject...
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There is a 2001 Brazilian movie, A Janela Da Alma (Window of the Soul), about blind photographers. The New York Times has a review of the movie. From the NY Times: “Brazilian filmmakers Joao Jardim and Walter Carvalho ponder the old adage “the eyes are the windows to the soul” as they explore vision...
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LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired’s Insights exhibit was featured recently in the New York Times. “‘Insights’ Showcases Blind and Visually Impaired Artists” gives an nice overview of the exhibit and it artists. Now in its 20th year, “Insights” is the country’s pre-eminent selected exhibition of paintings, photographs and mixed-media pieces by legally...
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Blind Photographers has written already about iPhone photography ins Shooting the iPhone 3GS. What will the iPad bring to the table? Nothing yet, as the tablet, like its older sibling, the iPod Touch, lacks a camera.  However, hope is not lost. PCWorld reports that they are  Sleuthing for an iPad Camera. “General consensus is...
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Apple’s new iPad has had me doing some thinking about its potential impact fro the visually impaired, particularly for blind photographers. Reading an article today (thanks, Dad) about a new e-book reader software, Blio, soon to be put out by a company run by Ray Kurzweil, prompted me to consider a new issue, accessible...
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The American Printing House for the Blind has announced their Nineteenth Annual Juried Art Competition and Exhibition for Artists Who Are Visually Impaired or Blind. The exhibition, APH InSights 2010: Visions From the Mind, requires entries be submitted by April 1, 2010, for preschool through high school and April 15, 2010, for adults. Make...
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Not too long ago, I posted about A Conversation About the Film Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers. Well, that conversation has taken place. The Annenberg Space for Photography’s blog reports about how “Bruce Hall and Corinne Marinnan open our eyes to Blind Photography!“. The subject of the evening was a short film...
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Spotted on Twitter, Pennsylvania’s Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry published a story on a local blind photographer in their Connections magazine last February. The article, Blind Photographer Has an Eye for Business, features Matt Wilkerson, owner of Coe Camera Shop. Wilkerson, who inherited his photography store from his father, has retinosa pigmentosa, a...
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As spotted on Twitter, Bruce Hall with Corinne Marrinan are presenting A Conversation About the Film Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers Thursday, February 4, 6:30-8:00pm as part of the IRIS Nights Lecture Series at The Annenberg Space for Photography in LA. The film that they will be discussing, Dark Light, is a...
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As I followed today’s announcement of the new Apple iPad, I began to imagine how, if at all,  it could make photography easier. I already have its tiny older sibling, the iPod Touch, which I am using to compose this post. The iPad looks to be mostly a jumbo version of the Touch. The...
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Blind photographer and artist,  John Dugdale, has been working with the Broadway production of the Miracle Worker. The production has done a nice job of featuring Dugdale and his images. The Miracle Worker has put on the web  The Photography of John Dugdale with a video interview (reposted below) and a short bio: “John...
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The F-Stop Beyond podcast recently interviewed Alex de Jong, a blind photographer and integral member of the Blind Photographers community. F-Stop Beyond is “the show that started it all. There are already so many podcasts about photography that cover f-stops and Photoshop, business and branding, but host Ron Dawson couldn’t find any that really...
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There is a new photography exhibit opening this week displaying works by blind and visually impaired photographers. The show, Sights Unseen, runs from 19 – 23 January at The Association of Photographers Gallery in London. The BBC News has produced an audio slideshow with images from the exhibit and discussion by the photographers and...
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Wired.com interviewed me for an article running now:  Blind Photographers Use Gadgets to Realize Artistic Vision.  The story features three of us from Blind Photographers, with interview material and photoss. From the article: “Dejong is part of an online community called Blind Photographers, where similarly handicapped shutterbugs share their work and photography tips. Because...
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About three and a half years ago, I started the Blind Photographers group on Flickr. I was curious to see if I was the only blind (or visually impaired) photographer around. I certainly was not alone. I asked “Is anyone out there?“. Within a short time, I had my answers.  Since then, membership in...
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