Images Beyond Sight


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Creator/Artist: Anindita Mandal

Category: Communication Design

Document: P3 Project

Batch: 2008-2010

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Raja Mohanty


Detailed Description

The project is an attempt to understand the possibilities of visual structure and composition of images photographed by the visually impaired. It also tries to understand the uncharacteristic shooting angles in addition to the objects and the subjects they choose to shoot- to open a window to their rich, fantastic visual world. The documentary film explores the various tactile, audio clues, visual memories of sight, the warmth of light and cognitive skills are used by the visually impaired to create “mental image” before they take judgment to take a picture. They use the camera as an extension of “self” to explore the visual world, gain deeper insight while recording their imagination and their point-of-view. Photography by the visually impaired reveals that a photograph can be made successfully in the mind as much as by the eyes, free from the techniques and rules followed by sighted photographers. It illuminates a new line of thought distinct from the way we approach photography and demands active mental participation of the sighted viewers to understand the experience of expressing a world that is not seen or limitedly seen.