Endorsements

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"I received your book In Touch With Pictures, thank you so much. Really enjoyed looking at pictures and really appreciated your efforts in trying to help the visually impaired people all over the world. Thank you again for the bottom of our heart! "

 Andrea Bocelli
World-renowned Italian opera singer, tenor and songwriter and record producer

"Photography by the blind? Of course! In the four corners of the world, ice age art reveals that homo sapiens love 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. 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  “Drawing and the Blind” 

"Re-envision what we assume: My enquiry in partnership with hundreds of blind and sighted people was to question the critics who delight in telling us what we cannot do. With this important book See As No Other, Partho Bhowmick and his community of blind photographers prompts people the world over to search their aesthetic and visceral compass, and ask themselves 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 through exploring variations in vision. In doing so, it changes our understanding.” 

Ruth Gould

CEO & Artistic Director

DaDa Fest, Liverpool, UK 

“An inspiring journey to rethink and discover, together with blind people, 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

Inventor of “Seeing With Sound” technology Netherlands

“For those of us who are sighted, our vision often blinds us. See As No Other achieves something remarkable and important - it makes us see things differently. It opens our eyes. It invites us to question what it really means to see. It engages us in a gradually unfolding and profound conversation that brings new understanding of the myriad ways in which humans visualise the world.” 

Tiffany Fairey

Co-founder

Photo Voice, 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 Other 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 

“Blind With Camera and the book See As No Other is a brilliant eye opener to learning that we do not really need our sight to see.” 

Abhishek Poddar

Founder, Tasveer (The Picture), Bangalore India 

“The Blind With Camera project endorses the trueness of Nothing is impossible. To follow a vision, no eyesight is needed. People are really blind if they lack imagination and do not have the guts to go beyond their limits. Blind With Camera breaks with boundaries and mental concepts, and shows, on a high artistic altitude, that beauty is invisible and there are miraculous ways to visualise the unseen. And again, blind people open the eyes of people with sight, and powerfully demonstrate how to build bridges to 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

Dialogue in the Dark, Germany