SEE AS NO OTHER

“Blind with Camera project endorses from another angle the trueness of “Nothing is impossible”. To follow a vision, no eyesight is needed. People are really “blind”, if they lack of imagination and they do not have the guts to go beyond their limits. Blind with Camera breaks with boundaries, mental concepts and shows on a high artistic altitude, that beauty is invisible and that there are miraculous ways to visualize the unseen. And again blind people open the eyes of people with eyesight, and demonstrate very powerfully how to build bridges for an inclusive world. I am sure the book “See As No Other” will inspire lots of people across the world to think, act and feel different.”- Andreas Heinecke, Founder of Dialogue in the Dark, Germany “Photography by the blind? Of course! In the 4 corners of the world, ice age art reveals that homo sapiens loves images. Photos show the surfaces of the tangible world, and the same surfaces make the visible world. Perspectives in the pictures tell us we are inside buildings, on the stairs or beside a gate. These are perspectives that touch shares with vision.Imaginative images tell stories.On a hot day, shadows are cool. We discover what things mean through many senses. SEE AS NO OTHER shows art appeals to the eye, the hand and the heart.” – John Miller Kennedy, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto and author of award-winning book “Drawing and the Blind” “Re-envision what we assume: My inquiry in partnership with hundreds of blind and sighted people asked us to question the ‘Critics’ who ‘delight to tell us what we cannot do.’ With this important book, Partho Bhowmick and his community of blind photographers, ask the whole world to search our aesthetic and visceral compass, and ask ourselves who has the right to talk about beauty, the skies, mountains, the song of birds, and colors.” –Elisabeth Salzhauer Axel, Founder & President, Art Beyond Sight, New York “All of us see the world through various filters of choice; we glance, we stare, we judge, reflect and so on. This book has the impact and power to arrest our ability to truly understand what it means to see; not just through culturally diverse aspects, but though exploring variations with vision. In doing so, it changes our understanding.” – Ruth Gould, CEO & Artistic Director, DaDa Disability Arts Fest, Liverpool UK “An inspiring journey to rethink and discover, together with blind people, and through the use of photography, what vision is about. Vision is not passive. With or without feedback on the final result there is always the act of seeing, selecting and composing the view while interacting with people and objects in the view. A road to awareness and independence.” – Dr. Peter Meijer, Dutch scientist & inventor of “Seeing With Sound” technology “For those of us who are sighted, our vision often blinds us. SEE AS NO OTHER achieves something remarkable and important, it makes us look differently. It opens our eyes. It invites us to question what it really means to see. It engages us in an unfolding and profound conversation that brings new understanding about the myriad ways in which humans visualize the world.” – Tiffany Fairey, Co-founder, PhotoVoice, London “In our Era of Images—that of the End of Night—blind photographers play a transcendent role: they inject invisibility back into the arrogant grip of vision and its technical prostheses. Nothingness. Dignity. The very chance for renewal. Darkness is lovers’ refuge, and light is lifeless without imagination. No eye lacks a blind spot, and sightlessness is never without a gaze. SEE AS NO OTHERS offer us more than a glimpse, a valuable contribution to the growing international movement of blind photography.” – Benjamin Mayer-Foulkes, Founding Director, 17, Institute of Critical Studies, Mexico City