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kestrell1. Here's the link to the Facebook page for visually impaired photographers
https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=133294703352148&v=wall
2. Visually impaired photographer features in Nokia commercial
A visually impaired photographer features in a brand new TV
advertisement for the latest Nokia camera phone. Gary Waite, a
photographer from Croydon stars in the advertisement as he wanders
around Blackpool taking photos with the camera phone. Waite unearthed
his talent for photography with the help of charity PhotoVoice.
PhotoVoice was set up to empower disadvantaged communities across the UK
and the world through photography. The charity works with amateur and
commercial photographers from Leeds to Lebanon on various projects that
highlight and capture the plight of disadvantaged communities.
Waite participated in the Sights Unseen project for the charity teaching
visually impaired and blind people sensory photography techniques. Waite
said:
“I’ve been taught to use my other senses to take pictures.
“For instance, hearing and smelling the sea air and the sound of the
roller coaster then, like every photographer, taking as many shots as
possible.”
from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12596142
3. And here's a few of my favorite entries from a list of famous blind and visually impaired people
http://www.foroyaa.gm/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7305
James Thurber - (December 8, 1894-November 2, 1961) James Thurber was a comedian and cartoonist most known for his contributions to New Yorker Magazine.
While playing with his brothers William and Robert, William shot him in the eye with and arrow while playing a game of William Tell making him almost completely
blind after the loss of an eye. At school James could not play sports with his friends due to this accident so he decided to work on his creative mind,
putting his skills in writing.
Claude Monet - also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting,
and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions before nature, especially as applied to
plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise. His popularity and fame grew. By 1907
he had painted many well-known paintings, but by then he had his first problem with his eyesight. He started to go blind. He still painted, though his eyes got worse. He wouldn’t stop painting until he was nearly blind. In the last decade of his life Monet, nearly blind, painted a group of large water lily murals (Nympheas) for the Musee de l’Orangerie in Paris.
Tony Max - Canadian visual artist, 1957 - He was born legally blind, with ten percent vision, because of congenital cataracts. His vision was improved by cataract surgery as a teenager, but the surgery eventually led to glaucoma and three retinal detachments. He still had significant vision impairments, but despite that, went on to become one of Canada’s most famous fine artists.
Bernard Morin - (born 1931) Bernard Morin is a French mathematician, especially a topologist, born in 1931, who is now retired. He has been blind since age 6, but his blindness did not prevent him from having a successful career in mathematics. Morin was a member of the group that first exhibited an eversion of the sphere, i.e. a homotopy (topological metamorphosis) which starts with a sphere and ends with the same sphere but turned inside-out. He also discovered the Morin surface, which is a half-way model for the sphere eversion, and used it to prove a lower bound on the number of steps needed to turn a sphere inside out.
Kes: Morin also created a series of clay models which demonstrated the steps in this inversion of the sphere; more info on the American Mathematical Society Web page on blind mathematicians
http://www.ams.org/notices/200210/comm-morin.pdf
https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=133294703352148&v=wall
2. Visually impaired photographer features in Nokia commercial
A visually impaired photographer features in a brand new TV
advertisement for the latest Nokia camera phone. Gary Waite, a
photographer from Croydon stars in the advertisement as he wanders
around Blackpool taking photos with the camera phone. Waite unearthed
his talent for photography with the help of charity PhotoVoice.
PhotoVoice was set up to empower disadvantaged communities across the UK
and the world through photography. The charity works with amateur and
commercial photographers from Leeds to Lebanon on various projects that
highlight and capture the plight of disadvantaged communities.
Waite participated in the Sights Unseen project for the charity teaching
visually impaired and blind people sensory photography techniques. Waite
said:
“I’ve been taught to use my other senses to take pictures.
“For instance, hearing and smelling the sea air and the sound of the
roller coaster then, like every photographer, taking as many shots as
possible.”
from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12596142
3. And here's a few of my favorite entries from a list of famous blind and visually impaired people
http://www.foroyaa.gm/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7305
James Thurber - (December 8, 1894-November 2, 1961) James Thurber was a comedian and cartoonist most known for his contributions to New Yorker Magazine.
While playing with his brothers William and Robert, William shot him in the eye with and arrow while playing a game of William Tell making him almost completely
blind after the loss of an eye. At school James could not play sports with his friends due to this accident so he decided to work on his creative mind,
putting his skills in writing.
Claude Monet - also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting,
and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions before nature, especially as applied to
plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise. His popularity and fame grew. By 1907
he had painted many well-known paintings, but by then he had his first problem with his eyesight. He started to go blind. He still painted, though his eyes got worse. He wouldn’t stop painting until he was nearly blind. In the last decade of his life Monet, nearly blind, painted a group of large water lily murals (Nympheas) for the Musee de l’Orangerie in Paris.
Tony Max - Canadian visual artist, 1957 - He was born legally blind, with ten percent vision, because of congenital cataracts. His vision was improved by cataract surgery as a teenager, but the surgery eventually led to glaucoma and three retinal detachments. He still had significant vision impairments, but despite that, went on to become one of Canada’s most famous fine artists.
Bernard Morin - (born 1931) Bernard Morin is a French mathematician, especially a topologist, born in 1931, who is now retired. He has been blind since age 6, but his blindness did not prevent him from having a successful career in mathematics. Morin was a member of the group that first exhibited an eversion of the sphere, i.e. a homotopy (topological metamorphosis) which starts with a sphere and ends with the same sphere but turned inside-out. He also discovered the Morin surface, which is a half-way model for the sphere eversion, and used it to prove a lower bound on the number of steps needed to turn a sphere inside out.
Kes: Morin also created a series of clay models which demonstrated the steps in this inversion of the sphere; more info on the American Mathematical Society Web page on blind mathematicians
http://www.ams.org/notices/200210/comm-morin.pdf
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Date: 2011-07-19 07:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-19 08:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-19 08:47 pm (UTC)http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/docs/outreach/oi/
(As I'm sure we're so relieved to read, the AMS Notices article concludes )
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Date: 2011-07-19 09:15 pm (UTC)I've told Alexx that, in the event of my death, his role as executor is to make sure no one ever describes me as an "inspiration."