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Seeing Beyond Sight: Photos by Blind Teenagers
Posted to: <Ned> Front Porch by Tony Deifell (12), Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:37:55 PDT
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Great to see all the O.net folks I've come to know and love here on Ned... and looking forward to meeting new folks.
I started a group on O.net two years ago to help get feedback for my first book - Seeing Beyond Sight. The community was incredibly helpful as I put the book together, doing the Blind Photography Challenge and then in being a partner on the SEEING BEYOND SALON that brought out 500 people to the book launch and interactive-art party in San Francisco. I can't thank you all enough!
I've been trying to keep everyone informed about the progress of the book, film, exhibit, etc. and I had a google video that I didn't get online in time before o.net closed. Here it is...
It is the keynote address I gave at the Social Enterprise Alliance national conference in Long Beach, CA (April 2007). I tell some stories and show some photos from the blind photographers I taught - and I tie it in to what "seeing" (in the broadest sense of the word) means to be a social entrepreneur.
Come to the next Social Enterprise conference in Boston March 9-11, 2008! I'll be there... and I think Mark Grimes is going too.
I also just put up a few other video clips on youtube from the documentary we're producing about a road trip across North Carolina to track down my former students. Some students had given up photography, many had continued with it, but all of them tell both humorous and sobering stories of what it is like being blind.
View and subscribe (we'll post more videos soon): http://www.youtube.com/SeeingBey ondSight
By Dominique Beyens (19), Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:41:24 PDT
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Great to see you up here dude. The video makes everything so much clearer (about the project and your passion).
I'll follow closely and let me know if you need any help.
Ps. Just spent 2/3rd's of my finances on an old medium format Hasselblad (Lars, wink, wink) and 3 prime lenses. I'm going back to the film format (senses need to be much more awakened when shooting film instead of digital). Also got myself 2 vintage camera's. One chinese on from the 60's and a very old Agfa Billy accordeon from the 30's. The Chinese one take perfect pictures and the Agfa one just came trough the post. The latter one holds peculiar fascination for me as the lens and viewfinder are very small (i reckon the picture that will come out are gonna have "your olde world quality"
Keep up the good work.
By Evvy Bryning (117), Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:23:57 PDT
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Relating that to what I do in trying to help the people in Uganda it becomes
Too often we try or want to help but it is what WE think others want or need. And often, it is the wrong help. We all need to ask what is needed before we just jump in.
This is something that I know is going to stick with me for years to come. Thank you so much.