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Photographs by blind photographers

Photograph by Gerardo Nigenda

Currently showing at University of California Riverside, “Sight Unseen” is an exhibit of works by accomplished blind photographers. TIME has a photo gallery of this exhibit accompanied by brief commentary that makes for a very interesting read. The artists utilizes their other senses to help frame the photo, but for many it appears that their blindness liberates them in their art as Pete Eckert comments:

“Sighted photographers always talk about the difficulty of what they call ‘seeing.’ I tell them ‘If you can’t see, it’s because your vision is getting in the way.”

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