So there was an art exhibit in Los Angeles featuring photographs by the best blind photographers from around the world. This film featured three of them. They had all become blind in different ways. One had childhood glaucoma, one developed it in his 20s, and another has had a stable but very limited amount of vision his whole life.
Well their photos are pretty amazing. I don't know if the dramatized shots of them actually taking photos turned out the best results. One gets the impression that they perform a bit for the camera, or are perhaps distracted by the attention. They don't normally shoot with a film crew following them around. There are also some scenes with famous photographers who are sighted, but who are they? They don't seem to have that much to say, or maybe they should just show us some of their own damn photographs. That might make a bit more sense.
Anyway, there was a bit of nudity, as one photographer likes to work with the human form. Well, that means it might be difficult to show this to children or in an educational setting.
But yeah, it was very fun to see artists coming from such similar but different perspectives than my own. One of them said "Art isn't a hobby, it is an obsession." I like that. I feel camaraderie with these people. I like that, too.
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