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Peter Eckert lost his sight as an adult, but that didn't stop him from becoming an accomplished, professional photographer. He won the grand prize at Artists Wanted: Exposure 2008, an international exhibition. In the above short film about his work, Eckert says:
My blindness -- while it might be a curiosity and it's kind of a hook on some of my work and stuff -- I try to stand on the work, not on the idiosyncrasy of my disability.
Artist's Website via The Agitator
And I might add that if he wasn't blind his work would be easily forgotten and ignored.
The shots create themselves, but blurry images are blurry images. It's good for him as a hobby, but not exactly "Wow! What a amazing picture" territory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLYYPnx9Cic
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