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Seeing Beyond Sight Photo Challenge by The C

April 3rd, 2007 7:50 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Seeing Beyond Sight has partnered with SFZero to challenge you to see the world differently - with more than your eyes.

Welcome new users: SFZero is an ongoing game in which you can choose to participate (or not) after you do the Seeing Beyond Sight Challenge.

Click here for new user registration.

1. Blindfold yourself.
(wear shades or tape your eyes shut)

2. Go out in public and make your way in the world.
(go 1 block, 1 hour or 1 roll of film; go with a friend or alone; make up your own process)

3. Photograph things you notice. And, just notice.
(What do you notice differently about objects, people, actions, interactions?)

4. Embrace the whole experience as much as the picture taking.
(Engage. Have a conversation with people you encounter. Take it all in.)

5. Share your story.
(For each photograph write a caption about your experience - a few lines or several paragraphs if you want.)

6. Challenge some friends to do it.
(email them the link: sf0.org/seeingbeyondsight)

Please don't post all the pictures from your shoot, but chose 1 to 3 that are the best images or are most telling of your experience. Caption the photos describing something about your experience - that is as important as the image itself. Longer stories are welcomed and may be added to www.seeingbeyondsight.org.

If you depend on your eyes to get around, then it is hard not to use them. Although you can tell us about how difficult it is to be blind, focus more on what you noticed about the world as you embarked on this journey.

This experience isn’t about blindness – it is about seeing, noticing and paying attention with more than your eyes.

This challenge was inspired by SEEING BEYOND SIGHT: PHOTOGRAPHY BY BLIND TEENAGERS, a new book published by Chronicle Books.

Today, myself, Mr. T, Flowen, and Doctor Frankenollie spent some time doing this task. After a slight mishap with Mr.Ts try, I did mine.

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One of the things I noticed more than anything else that I don't normally notice were the birds. It didn't seem like there were that many around, but every sound they made seemed like it was much bigger and more important than the others. Every time I heard them I tried to take a picture, but it doesn't look like I got it in any of them. This was the most obvious attempt.


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Another thing I noticed a lot where the plants. I spent most of the time blindfolded walking around a garden type area. As such, I was hit by limbs from plants and trees more than a few times. This one got wrapped around my leg a little. The reason I chose this picture was because when it happened, I thought it was just another plant, and in my mind, I pictured it to be a pretty bush or something. When I saw the picture though, I saw that it was just a tangled mass. Strange that something that looks so unappealing now could have seemed beautiful to me. Maybe it still is, and I just don't know it.


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This one isn't the most meaningful, but it was the most common. Since I walked near a road, cars came by a lot and drew my attention. Although they were the least important thing to me at the time, and I didn't really want to focus on them at all, the sound they made almost demanded attention, and thus I had to take pictures.



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