Blind photographers.
The series is composed
of my photographs,
along with the “light painting”
by Blind photographers
association in New York.
In the city of lights and colors,
with a massive
people’s flow –
Big City’s eyes,
and the dizzying beauty –
could you imagine
life in the dark?
Accepting your eyes
as something integral,
be grateful
that you are given sight,
vision, and talent –
Many have to fight hard for it.
Why such injustice?
Or was a greater talent
destined to awaken
through greater struggle?
Or can a whole new vision –
new movement
only be born
when the creator
reaches the darkest
depths of this world?
Once you are in complete darkness,
you will start create
to find the light
at any price.
Carrying the light in your souls,
your vision illuminates
and inspires –
even amidst the darkest forces.
Sells Manor
in the heart of New York City,
at 135 West 23rd Street.
The secret dark room –
True light
within the indifferent Big Apple.
Every detail created by hands
and feelings
with no sight,
by every millimeter
of internal illumination.
Every Thursday,
they meet together,
to invent
new methods of light creation.
And a new vision in the darkness.
Even I was lucky enough
to be their model –
capture my light
in complete darkness,
highlighted
by the directed beams
of a small lantern.
Separate parts
of the composition
are lit for a certain time
depending
on the author’s idea.
The photographer
places the camera
on a tripod,
then establishes long exposure,
fixing all movements,
directions,
leading colors
through deep tunnels.
The result is unpredictable
for everybody
except the photographer.
The shelves
are filled with prints.
Books including
Their photo collections.
The technique,
known as light painting,
is a photographic technique
in which exposures
are made by moving a hand-held light source.
Every day the photographers
have to go
deeper and deeper
into the darkness,
but there is even more light.
The real faces
than can’t be seen
even with eyes wide open.