139 Marion Sheppard 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 and opened shutter in a very dark room. The flashlight is used like a painter's brush to bring out shapes from the darkness.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.

 

This image shows Marion soon after she started working with us and was learning the technique. When I work with a new member , a simple head shot is usually made to keep it all simple, no major theatrics or productions going on behind her or around her- just a bit of something waved around and lit during the long exposure.

Please visit SWPC's own extensive pro site at Flickr,new images are added there quite often ,so you can keep up with our output...

www.flickr.com/photos/seeingwithphotography/

and main website...

www.seeingwithphotography.com/

and my own website too...

home.earthlink.net/~nicomaco/index.html

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