When photographer Alice Wingwall started loosing her eyesight to a degenerative disease, she decided not to give up her work. As she puts it, “I may have lost my sight, but I haven’t lost my vision.”
Her photographs — recently showcased at the UC Berkeley Art Museum — are provocative as much for their aesthetic value as for their ability to challenge the “conventional wisdom” on what it means to see and what constitutes an artistic vision.
- Profile of Alice Wingwall, Spark, KQED
- “In the eye of the beholder: Berkeley Art Museum and the Townsend Center take a closer look at art and visual impairment in ‘Blind at the Museum’ exhibit,” UC Berkeley News
- “Berkeley: Blind photographer’s vision extends beyond her eyes,” San Francisco Chronicle
- UC Berkeley Journalism
- Architectural photographs by Wingwall, University of Oregon Sculpture
- Shooting Blind: Photographs by the Visually Impaired, Aperture Foundation
- Invisible Power, “Photos of Japan by blind photographers. Includes touch-and-feel pictures.”
- “Challenged Visions: Robert A. Schaefer Jr. discovers how John Dugdale and Flo Fox don’t let their physical challenges stand in the way of photography.” AlternativePhotography
- Evgen Bavcar, online gallery of the blind photographer’s work
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