Blinkie Photography

Blind Photographer Andrew Follows who is challenging the Arts community.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Blinkie Photography: Photographer Andrew Follows Suffering from Retinitis Pigmentosa, a degenerative ocular disease that renders me legally blind and reliant on my guide dog Eamon to move about, my world is blurred and distorted, lacking any detail. For many years I never knew what I was missing, even moderate light causes me to white-out completely. When I take a photograph I do so because in that time and place I cannot see what the camera can yet I know that image, that event will be waiting for me when I am ready and able to view it. In this way the camera becomes my eyes and my photographs my only way of experiencing a past moment from which I am otherwise excluded. Instead of wallowing in what I cannot see I become excited by what I can.