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Seeing Beyond Sight Photo Challenge by Toom

May 27th, 2007 12:13 AM

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.

I arrived at the start point fairly late, hope I will still have time to participate and have some fun. That's the thing with these Events. You don't get THAT much information, so you have no idea what you are in store for.

I didn't have a partner. I guess you could say I was a total loner. I arrive and I see Ian, relaxing and throwing back a cold one. He offers to take me out and the adventure begins.

I set the pictures in the order of which they were taken, and they each tell the story a bit better than me describing the actions.

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First picture
I almost tripped on this guys burlap strap.
inside a tour bus... or a party bus?
emergency!
YIKES! A PIT
Blind guys get all the loving
this man is NOT Steve McQueen
Ned.
oh, san francisco, you lovable old city.
nice lady!
hardest challenge of the day.
Macys? more like MAZEY's.
the invisible woman
the end

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Jane is watching...
posted by Orion on May 28th, 2007 12:47 AM

The picture comments are priceless.