Blind photography

"The whole trajectory of modern art for the last 100 years has been toward the concept of mental construction, and blind photography comes from that place. The very concept sounds like an oxymoron" (by new York Times). When I first read about this man I felt awe, and a power that made me appreciate the gifts that I have, the gifts that most of us have. Pete Eckert is a blind photographer and he doesn’t have these gifts, but obviously he has some others. His artwork is not only recognized but he won one of the biggest photographic competitions in the world, Artist Wanted “Exposure” competition, New York, NY, 2008. By looking at his work, we see something simple, something clear, something that goes directly to our harts and we understand that the person who did these pictures is special. By combining help form sighted people and his extraordinary ability of visualizing the world around him, he is creating images in his head — really elaborate, fully realized visions — and then bringing some version of that vision into the world for the rest of us to see how he imagine our world and what he wants to communicate as an artist. As he stated he want to create bridges between the two worlds. And I think he succeeds exactly that.