Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Blind photographers

I have taught about this since my last class.  Can one become engage with photography without sight? what other senses would you need to awake when taking a photo without actually seeing?  I believe more is needed other than sight when taking photos. The camera can see therefore the photographer must feel. There is a need for emotion  and imagination something that can be felt from within.  There might be something more that I am not conscious of at this moment so I will continue exploring other creative ways of taking a photos without seeing the subject or composing.

http://www.theblindphotographer.com
http://www.seeingbeyondsight.org/links/index.htm
http://septacopsandkids.blogspot.com/2010/08/blind-photography.html

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”   Aaron Siskind