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Before my vision loss, most of my photography used to be social documentary "street" photography. After the changes to my vision, I started to document the street as I experience it, as an environment of guiding lines and waypoints.

This photo has been digitally retouched.

Generally, I photograph what seems interesting within a square of roughly 250x250 m, not far from my house. Of late, puddles have started to fascinate me. I have marked the minimum focus distance of the lens I used most on my cane: when I notice something interesting, I'll feel around for it, measure out the focus, put the camera on my shoe and shoot. I shoot my lenses wide open: this achieves a very narrow focus plane with the lenses I use. The presence of people is still an important aspect to my work, so I tend to listen for the presence of people so as to get them inside the frame.

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lodrorigdzin said...

I always considered myself to be a documentary photographer and I can understand why inclusion in this project would not be 100% obvious. However, it is how I experience my surroundings. I think I've started documenting the process of becoming blind. (as opposed to being sightless) I don't see my own output: I use assistants to edit and process my work, so the re-telling of images is part of my process. In a way my photographs are dispatches to the world of the sighted: once they are out there, they have to fend for themselves. They depict the mental construct I make of the world in which I live and in that sense they are documentary, I think.

Posted on 08/01/2008 06:04

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