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Seeing Beyond Sight Photo Challenge by meeshy meesh

March 18th, 2007 8:27 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.

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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.

I met up with a group of people at a gallery in D.U.M.B.O., Brooklyn and ventured out with two girls to go on a blindfolded photography adventure.

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assignment: tall building

One of the assignments was to take a photo of a tall building. I think that's what I was attempting to do in this one. I really like the composition and all of the different angles. I'm not sure if I would have bothered taking this photo if I was able to see.

assignment: stranger

I met this woman at the gallery and went out with her and her friend. She was a stranger...for a little while.

park

I heard kids playing somewhere in this general direction...obviously missed them with the camera, but ended up with a semi-cool shot.

assignment: something moving

This was my attempt at getting a photo of something moving. I heard a helicopter and started snapping away at the sky. I got the helicopter in a few shots, but this was my favorite since I also got the bridge.

assignment: yourself

me!

assignment: non-human animal

I crouched down to take a picture of this dog. The woman standing in the back must have thought I was trying to focus on her, and told me, "I'm not two feet tall!"

assignment: something red