"What are you thinking, teaching
photography to blind people?"

Melody's self-portrait

I just set the camera up on a shelf and pushed a button to make it go off by itself. I stood back and held my teddy bear.

That's the teddy bear my ex-boyfriend game me on my birthday. We broke up the day before Valentine's Day. It just tore me apart, because I was just sittin' there in the corner like, "I don't have no one." I mean, I cried the whole night.

Photography wasn't the obvious subject to teach at Governor
Morehead School for the Blind.

Even Jackie, one of the first three students to take the class,
was incredulous: "What are you thinking, teaching photography
to blind people?"

As a photographer, I feared losing my eyesight and began to wonder,
"If I were blind, could I still make photographs?"

I wanted to find out ...

 

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