When Pete Eckert started going blind, he decided to channel his feelings of loss into art. Credit: Pete Eckert“I view my work, and the blind photography movement, as an extension of the impressionist movement from a hundred years ago,” he said. The blind photography movement is the next logical step.”During his first forays into photography, Eckert would go on excursions at night with his German Shepherd, Uzu, for protection. Playing with light and long exposures, Eckert builds the pictures in his mind, using sound and touch to visualize his subjects. So, for the past 20 years, I’ve been actively rewiring my visual cortex through sound, touch and memory inputs.

Source: Egypt Independent October 04, 2017 03:33 UTC