Blind Images

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Blind images, is a research on the complex relationship between photography and blindness. Two distant worlds, almost an oxymoron, which reveal a mutual attention consolidated over time and dictated by a common interest, seeing beyond the visible. A dissertation that compares the experiences of great authors of the history of photography, who have considered the condition of blindness important to show, with those of blindphotographers, blind subjects who use photography to express their relationship with reality and sensoriality.

The key concept of the whole research is the expression “to look does not mean to see”, that means thinking of a sensorial and synaesthetic approach to photography, which goes beyond sight through the stimulation and the recall of several senses simultaneously. A singular way of communication that is used to explore a specific case study, Usher Syndrome, a rare genetic disease that involves hypovision and progressive hearing loss. An experimental path that has led to the creation of three participated self-portraits, born from the collaboration with people who live daily this condition. For each protagonist has got a personal chapter that tells the life, offers the transcript of the video interview, tells inspirations and influences and shows the final photograph with the connected song. All this research is accompanied by numerous photos of reportage, made by following protagonists in the places that most represent them.