We often take many things for granted in life. Perhaps the most important and fundamental, especially for photojournalists, is our ability to see. Over the past week I have encountered blind residents in Berkeley navigating a very different world than that of our own. Those encounters got me thinking of the most complicated of tasks to the most mundane that we pilot on a daily basis. It got me thinking of how the removal of sight can, and will, exponentially complicate our daily activates.
For this project I hope to visually capture the struggle, adversity and ultimately the resolve, faced by an estimated 25 million adults in the United States that are legally blind. In order to do so, I have contacted the Lions Center for the Blind in Oakland to spend time with those that were born with, and those that have contracted various forms of vision impairment later in life. I want to bring to light the learning and rewiring of the brain for those that must live in a world designed for us that can see. My first visit to the center is scheduled for this week for a tour and to discuss photo essay possibilities.
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