Seeing Beyond Sight

Sound Shadows

"This book will make you look — and look again—
at how you perceive and what you assume.

~ Shambhala Sun

"savvy, passionate, witty, and yes, beautiful"
~ FastCompany.com

“uniquely powerful”
~ Utne Magazine

"What are you thinking, teaching photography to blind people?" — Jackie, one of the first three students to take the class, was incredulous.

Melody's wrote about her self-portrait (above):

I just set the camera up on a shelf and pushed a button to make it go off by itself. I stood back and held my teddy bear.

That's the teddy bear my ex-boyfriend game me on my birthday. We broke up the day before Valentine's Day. It just tore me apart, because I was just sittin' there in the corner like, "I don't have no one." I mean, I cried the whole night.

Photography wasn't the obvious subject to teach at Governor
Morehead School for the Blind.

As a photographer, I feared losing my eyesight and began to wonder,
"If I were blind, could I still make photographs?"

I wanted to find out ...

 

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