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Alexandra Hobbes, blind since t...d. New York, NY. April 16, 2012

Alexandra Hobbes, blind since the age of four because of domestic violence, listens to the television in the apartment where she lives with her husband Elijah Hobbes, albino and visually impaired. The blind listen to television and hope for a device that more fully describes scenes so they can enjoy the programs on the same level as the hearing impaired. New York, NY. April 16, 2012

Collin Watt, visually impaired,...Queens, New York, July 10, 2012

Collin Watt, visually impaired, climbs a rope in his backyard. He is karate teacher for the visually impaired and used to be a waiter at the restaurant Dans le Noir, in midtown Manhattan. Queens, New York, July 10, 2012

Michael Faillace, a blind lawye... New York, NY. October 19, 2012

Michael Faillace, a blind lawyer, swims daily in Asphalt Green, a swimming-pool in the Upper East Side. He says the contact with the water helps drain the stress of his job. New York, NY. October 19, 2012

Collin Watts, visually impaired...hattan. New York, July 29, 2012

Collin Watts, visually impaired, sitting at a bar in Penn Station, where he transits every time he goes from his home in Jamaica, Queens, to Manhattan. New York, July 29, 2012

Flowers can be hit and fall ver...ne, Brooklyn, NY. March 8, 2012

Flowers can be hit and fall very easily; in some houses they're kept under transparent plastic bells. Apartment of Dale Layne, Brooklyn, NY. March 8, 2012

Verbal Description and Touch To... booked. New York. Apr 27, 2012

Verbal Description and Touch Tour of the Whitney Biennial 2012, where the blind and visually impaired can experience art pieces without seeing them. The tours are organized every two months and have to be booked. New York. Apr 27, 2012

Collin Watt, visually impaired,...e. New York, NY. April 16, 2012

Collin Watt, visually impaired, looks from a very short distance at a photo shot by Tim Hetherington, at the retrospective at the photographer at Yossi Milo Gallery. Before his death in April 2011, Tim Hetherington had been working on a project with the Milton Margai School for the Blind, Sierra Leone. New York, NY. April 16, 2012

Robert Brown, Dale Layne and Cy...Rock, Arkansas, January 5, 2013

Robert Brown, Dale Layne and Cynda Bellamy at the movie theater before the beginning of Cloud Atlas. Robert recently became visually impaired, Dale , (on the phone) is completely blind, and Cynda, sighted, is the recreational specialist at World Services for the Blind. Although few movie theaters are equipped with bluetooth devices providing a description of the scenes for the blind, most of them are not, and they rely on the audio input from the movie and hints from the ones who are sitting with them. Action movies can be especially frustrating, for the presence of long action scenes with no dialogue and a powerful music, that necessarily require visual preception for spectators to follow the thread. Little Rock, Arkansas, January 5, 2013

Blind poet and publisher Steve ...ge. New York, NY April 16, 2014

Blind poet and publisher Steve Cannon is pictured in his office at The Gathering of the Tribes, art gallery and poetry space Cannon founded in 1991, that quickly became a landmark of the New York East Village. New York, NY April 16, 2014

Gloria Turnblo, blind since 201...New York, NY. December 13, 2011

Gloria Turnblo, blind since 2010, poses during a class of photography for the blind at Visions center for the blind. The class is taught by Mark Andres, a sighted photographer. Students compose the frame and decide the position of the subject with the help of visual memory. They're offered descriptive feedback by Andres or a teacher assistant. Their book "Shooting Blind" was published by Aperture in 2005. New York, NY. December 13, 2011

Matthew Whitaker, a young blind...d. New York, NY. March 10, 2012

Matthew Whitaker, a young blind drummer who is already known as a musician, takes the arm of a schoolmate during a music lesson at the Lighthouse International, center for the blind and visually impaired. New York, NY. March 10, 2012

Collin Watt ties a knot on a ro...Queens. New York, July 10, 2012

Collin Watt ties a knot on a rope in his backyard in Jamaica, Queens. New York, July 10, 2012

"When you're first lo...le Layne. New York, Apr 2, 2012

"When you're first losing sight for glaucoma, the world starts to appear fragmented, like through a broken screen. You can see only in some directions. Then you get to the point when you see light but you don't quite understand where does it come from". Dale Layne. New York, Apr 2, 2012

Kitchen of the restaurant Dans ...rldwide. New York. Mar 11, 2012

Kitchen of the restaurant Dans le Noir, where blind waiters serve in the pitch black dining room. They're the only ones able to find orientation in the dark, guide and serve clients. The aim of the restaurant is to let people experience the sensation of eating without seeing the food, or anything else around them. Since when this photo has been taken Dans Le Noir in New York closed, but locations are open in other cities worldwide. New York. Mar 11, 2012

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