Photography is just one method to express ourselves and, like everybody else, we have the ability to feel the beauty and joy of life. It is not about photographing what we can see, it's more about capturing what we feel in our hearts.” Xie Yan (Director of One Plus One, China )

Project Organisations

• PhotoVoice

• Sight of Emotion (Ojos que Sienten A.C) - English content available as pdf

• One-Plus-One (Chinese language)

• Organisation of Blind Africans and Caribbeans (OBAC)

Printable Resources (not available online)

• Beyond Sight Printable Exhibition (jpegs)

• Tactile Diagram examples (jpegs of original photos and tactile versions - opens folder on CD-ROM)

Audio Resources

• Talk on Sensory Photography by Matt Daw (PhotoVoice Projects Manager) and Tanvir Bush (visually impaired photographer & facilitator)

• Example photo description

• Example tactile diagram guide

Eye Health Organisations and Information

• Vision 2020

• Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)

• Action for the Blind UK

• Dialogue in the Dark

• Lighthouse International - online resource on visual impairment

• Vision Aid - Serving the visually impaired in under-served areas

Links to other blind / visual impairment photography and art projects around the world

•  www.theblindphotographer.com

•  www.seeingbeyondsight.org

•  www.seeingwithphotography.com

•  www.blindwithcamera.org

•  www.blindphotographers.org

•  http://www.flickr.com/groups/blind_photographers/ - Blind photographers on Flickr

•  Art Beyond Sight NY - Art education for blind people

•  Seeing Beyond Sight San Francisco - Photography by blind teenagers

•  Seeing with Photography NY

• www. educal.com.mx

• www.dialogue-in-the-dark.com

Professional blind and visually impaired photographer references

•  Evgen Bavcar, Eslovenia

•  Flo Fox , New York (WARNING - contains explicit images)

Further online project resources:

•  http://www.seeingbeyondsight.org/links/index.htm

Books

•  Basic Photography, by Michael Langford. Seventh Edition

•  La Cámara / The Camera, by Ansel Adams

•  How to look at Everything by David Finn

•  The PhotoVoice Manual (available from www.photovoice.org)

•  Luna Cornea No 17 ( Revista) Centro de la Image

•  Basic Photography, by Michael Langford. Seventh Edition

•  La Cámara Lúcida , by Roland Barthes

Tactile Diagram information

• Art Beyond Sight handbook to tactile diagrams

• Art Beyond Sight guidelines for using tactile diagrams

• Zychem (also offers swell paper, tactile printers and tactile printing services in the UK)

• Example audio description (mp3)

Assistive technology advice

• Ability Hub