Photographer's Sight

I interviewed nine glasses wearing image makers on how poor vision may have affected their creative journey. Stemmed from personal conversations on the topic, I noticed lots of us jokingly have in the photography community - I began to think more critically about this idea internally and decided to reach out to my community and have these conversations with a more investigative lens. I learned the ways poor vision dictated a sense of self and maybe even belonging. How perfectionism arrived in some of our lives because we knew we were working at a deficit. I wondered if poor eyesight took something away from the relationship between art and artist or if it was an inevitable driving force to dedication. Post project, I wonder if it is simply the denotation of poor eyesight itself that influences us more than the experience of it.

It interests me to know more about the gumbo of our language, our environments, and our experiences that lead us down any given path. And that in this case poor eyesight being just one ingredient.

Featuring visual artists in order of appearance:

Lei Phillips, Sade Ndeya, Cinthya Silverstein, Adam Davis, Mercedes Zapatas, Kaykay, Kelli Scates, Ian Lipton, Dakotah Whiting.