If you have ever come across my blog before, you’ll already know that photography by blind people is something of a passion with me.
I have hardly ever paid any heed to photos OF blind people, which tend to be, in my experience, miserable images of pity, and often purely voyeuristic. Often, the sighted person’s idea of us blind people is that we somehow live in the dark. Never mind that someone who is totally blind may never have grasped the concept of darkness, and those of us who can still see a bit may not want to embrace the idea of darkness either.
That’s what drew me to
Blanco by Stefano de Luigi (article and slide-show).
Here, the photographer starts from white light (hence the title, “Blanco”, Italian for “white”). Add all the colours together, and, if they’re radiant colours, at least, they make white.
These photos are not eye-candy. Stefano de Luigi has spent several years photographing blind people in many situations, and understands the complexity of blind people’s lives. The photography may be highly intrusive, but mere voyeurism it ain’t.
