StevenE2010
Henry Wearing an Eye-guard by Steven Erra
I'm a long time member of the Seeing With Photography Collective, based in New York City, and am posting some of my individual images here at Flickr. Our group has people totally blind, visually impaired and "normally" sighted. I'm in the visually impaired-legally blind category, and still retain a little eyesight, but not much.
The images in this series are all light paintings made using a 4x5 inch view camera - in a very dark room, and with a flashlight, of course. They span many years roughly from 1998 until around 2007, our group rarely uses the big view camera now, as Polaroid has discontinued production of their negative film. I miss it.
In the room where our group usually works, there are many odds and ends, dusty crafts projects, wigs, beads, tacky tinsel and cardboard nonsense. Also, a number of unfinished sculptures which our members have collected from trash bins - all these make good props. You might see one behind Henry. It's a miniature cottage constructed by a blind man who discarded it after the sculpture classes had been canceled. It had broken and leaned a lot, so I propped it up on some shelving, and used some white wires spread around, and moved, to make a strange atmosphere. I loaned Henry my eye guard from a recent cataract operation and taped him up like I was. I used to try to make Henry laugh while I lit him - he has a great laugh and smile. Capturing this elusive emotion is hard during the long exposure.
Please visit
www.seeingwithphotography.com/ and my own website too...
Henry Wearing an Eye-guard by Steven Erra
I'm a long time member of the Seeing With Photography Collective, based in New York City, and am posting some of my individual images here at Flickr. Our group has people totally blind, visually impaired and "normally" sighted. I'm in the visually impaired-legally blind category, and still retain a little eyesight, but not much.
The images in this series are all light paintings made using a 4x5 inch view camera - in a very dark room, and with a flashlight, of course. They span many years roughly from 1998 until around 2007, our group rarely uses the big view camera now, as Polaroid has discontinued production of their negative film. I miss it.
In the room where our group usually works, there are many odds and ends, dusty crafts projects, wigs, beads, tacky tinsel and cardboard nonsense. Also, a number of unfinished sculptures which our members have collected from trash bins - all these make good props. You might see one behind Henry. It's a miniature cottage constructed by a blind man who discarded it after the sculpture classes had been canceled. It had broken and leaned a lot, so I propped it up on some shelving, and used some white wires spread around, and moved, to make a strange atmosphere. I loaned Henry my eye guard from a recent cataract operation and taped him up like I was. I used to try to make Henry laugh while I lit him - he has a great laugh and smile. Capturing this elusive emotion is hard during the long exposure.
Please visit
www.seeingwithphotography.com/ and my own website too...