The Inner Gallery is collection of photographs taken by the visually impaired photographers of varying ages and types of blindness ranging from total blindness to partial sight. They use the camera as extensions of themselves, to explore the visual world and gain deeper insights, while recording their imagination and point-of-view. They use various tactile and audio clues, visual memories of sight, the warmth of light and cognitive skills to create a “mental image” before they make a judgement to take a picture. They are the owners of their uninhibited process of creation.
The dominance and mix of one or more of the senses is usually caught in the photograph, clearly revealing that a finger has eyes, the ear has eyes, the memory has eyes, emotion has eyes and the mind has eyes.
The Inner Gallery raises the critical questions: What do we “see” in the photographs? How do we “read” the photographs? What do we “get” from the photographs?
Enjoy the photographs and find the answers for yourself.
Photographs in the gallery is grouped based on the main sense used by the visually impaired to take pictures like touch, audio, smell, warmth of light, recall of memory, imagination and intuition. To know the photographer take the mouse or finder over the picture.
Picture by Rahul Shirshat (born blind) 2006
Pic by Mahesh Umrannia (late blind), 2006
Pic by Krishna (partially sighted) 2010
Pic by Joseph (late blind) 2010
Pic by Rakesh Paswan (born blind) 2011
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