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.
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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.

My digital photography class used this is an in-class project. We were told to go out, blindfold ourselves, take a partner to steer, and take photos on campus of what we heard and experienced.
The campus has construction going on so it was kind of noisy.
One thing the group learned, people are more willing to have photos taken if the photographer is blindfolded. One I learned, air conditioners and small groups of people make LOUD noises...