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Tobias Sinclair
Level 1: 10 points
Alltime Score: 80 points
Last Logged In: December 16th, 2007
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Seeing Beyond Sight Photo Challenge by Tobias Sinclair

December 13th, 2007 9:38 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.

Wow. This was pretty awesome. I did this at night, so I was more than a bit frightened. I walked around my property and surprisingly did not injure myself. The pic is of the bag I put over my head. >:3

Walking around in the snow not knowing where I'm at is actually surprisingly fun. I kind of had an idea of what the area was like, but I dug the idea of using the camera as my eyes, but only seeing what I saw at a later time. I did get some cool shots, and I'll post them soon, I'm just not really sure where or how, coz I'm a bit of a n00b.

I'm probably going to try this task a few more times in a more public setting, preferably with a pair of sunglasses with pieces of paper taped into the lenses so I can't see through them. Even if I don't move around that much, I like relying on every other sense other than sight. You hear stories of blind people relying on their other senses, and it causes these other senses to become magnified to compensate for the loss of another. This is something I would like to experience to a degree.

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This is the mask I had to cover my face and make me BLIND



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posted by Charlie Fish on December 14th, 2007 1:49 AM

Tell us more about what happened! Show us the photos you took in your state of blindness! Check out some of the other completions for inspiration.

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posted by adam. on December 14th, 2007 7:19 AM

yeah, i'd like to know what happened.

kudos on actually doing this though!

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posted by Tobias Sinclair on December 14th, 2007 8:42 AM

Will do, where can I post some pics?

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posted by Tobias Sinclair on December 14th, 2007 8:42 AM

Haha, if you can't tell, I'm pretty new.

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posted by adam. on December 14th, 2007 9:13 AM

just edit the task, and at the bottom theres a little thing to upload pictures. just careful you don't move them to media folder!

welcome to the game, i'm new too :)

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posted by susy derkins on December 14th, 2007 11:21 AM

A chipotle bag as a mask must have its own interesting story :)
I´ll wait for the pictures to vote.