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Los Angeles Times, USA
Sunday, April 29, 2007

Shots in the dark

By Tony Deifell

TONY DEIFELL, a photographer, is the author of "Seeing Beyond Sight,"
published this month by Chronicle Books.

WHEN I FIRST SAW the photographs of the sidewalk, I thought they were a
mistake. Perhaps Leuwynda had intended to capture a classmate or one of
the large oak trees scattered across the campus. I was wrong. As soon as
Leuwynda got her camera, she knew what she wanted to do: photograph the
cracks in the sidewalk. 

The pictures were proof of damage, and she sent them, along with a
letter, to Supt. Sheila Breitwieser. "Since you are sighted," Leuwynda
wrote, "you may not notice these cracks. They are a big problem since my
white cane gets stuck." 

Photography wasn't the most obvious subject to teach at the Governor
Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh, N.C. Even Jackie, one of my
first students, was incredulous: "What are you thinking, teaching
photography to blind people?" 

When the first pictures came back, I was looking for something that
resembled what I was accustomed to seeing in photography. But all I saw
were missed opportunities: heads cut off and out-of-focus images. 

Over time, though, I came to see the images differently. I found that
looking at them was like listening to someone who has recently learned a
new language and speaks with surprising originality in his or her choice
of words and unwitting candor. 


http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-photos29apr29,1,5
167373.story?coll=la-news-comment

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