Connolly was born without legs, a condition known as sporadic birth defect. He uses his camera to stare back at those people who stare at him on the street. Since he travels the globe as an X Games athlete and skier, his pictures show people from many different cultures, all in the act of staring at him. Continue reading “Kevin Connolly”
Month: December 2016
Palestinian war correspondents: Moamen Qreiqea and Osama Silwadi
A couple of inspirational photographers came to light whilst looking up disabled photographers. The first is Moamen Qreiqea, 25, a photographer who lost both his legs in an Israeli air strike in 2008 while taking pictures east of Gaza. Continue reading “Palestinian war correspondents: Moamen Qreiqea and Osama Silwadi”
Anne Geddes, Protecting Our Tomorrows: Portraits of Meningococcal Disease
“One emotion that unites all of us as parents is the instinctive drive to ensure that our children are safe and protected. In allowing them to grow and flourish, we protect the future of our world.”
Geddes is foremost a photographer of children, especially infants, under very soft ethereal lighting. Continue reading “Anne Geddes, Protecting Our Tomorrows: Portraits of Meningococcal Disease”
Douglas McCulloh, Blind Photographers: Vision, Accessibility, and Empowerment in the Museum
I found this review of a travelling exhibition – Sight Unseen: International Photography by Blind Artists, and I was like – what?!? I found the exhibition catalogue online and will look at a few of the photographers whose work or approach interests me. Continue reading “Douglas McCulloh, Blind Photographers: Vision, Accessibility, and Empowerment in the Museum”
Pete Eckert
Pete Eckert, one of the photographers exhibited, says the following: “I slip photos under the door from the world of the blind to be viewed in the light of the sighted” and as McCulloh points out, the pictures that are displayed are mere second-hand copies, one step removed from the originals – which can never actually be displayed since they remain in the minds of their creators. Continue reading “Pete Eckert”
Gerardo Nigenda
Gerardo Nigenda from Mexico documents his life in images and then punctures through the print’s emulsion with Braille text, which Continue reading “Gerardo Nigenda”
Evgen Bavčar
Evgen Bavčar is a photographer from Slovenia who lost both his eyes in accidents by the age of 12. Continue reading “Evgen Bavčar”
Alice Wingwall
McCulloh also mentions the work of Alice Wingwall, but her work did not really inspire me. Basically she went to a museum with her guide dog and ‘reclaimed’ the museum space Continue reading “Alice Wingwall”
Sophie Calle, Les Aveugles
For this project, Calle asked a number of people who had been born blind what their ‘image of beauty’ was: Continue reading “Sophie Calle, Les Aveugles”
Joseph Grigely, Postcards to Sophie Calle
In response to Calle’s work, Grigely wrote a series of ‘postcards’. His work engages fully with Calle’s in a kind of monological analysis of how the work can be perceived in terms of contemporary positions Continue reading “Joseph Grigely, Postcards to Sophie Calle”
Carl Whetham photography 