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Seeing Beyond Sight Photo Challenge by qwerty uiop

February 17th, 2007 2:11 AM / Location: 35.777383,-78.63642

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 didn't want to take the blindfold off...

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muni driver

muni driver

I was with a few people at this intersection. They were talking about how a muni driver was doing something interesting with the bus's mirror. I tried to snag a shot, but missed. The driver was nice enough to let me take his picture.


porto-potty

porto-potty

i remember liking the texture of this porto potty, so I stepped back and grabbed a shot.


friendly girls

friendly girls

while crossing the street...


dolores park

dolores park

we ended up in dolores park, which was amazing. my friends told me the coast was clear so I ran in this field for a while.


these guys ran too

these guys ran too

at one point in the park orion and devin got stuck in some mud. i heard them struggling...


later that night

later that night

[this isn't part of the task]



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Porto-Potty and Dolores Park
posted by Yenoh Honey on February 17th, 2007 10:34 AM

Both nice images. I wonder what you were thinking when you took the Dolores Park one. Did someone tell you it was the park and you figured that would be a good scene or was it a crapshoot? I like it because none of us would probably have normally taken a picture of a dark park with nothing in it if we were looking at it.

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posted by qwerty uiop on February 28th, 2007 2:07 PM

I knew I was in the park, and I knew that other people were around me.