Although it requires some training, some explanation, and mastering reading braille, anyone with visual impairment you can experience, feel and touch photos of great professionals of the caliber of Sebastiao Salgado, Ben Striton, Ulla Lohman, Ilvy Njiokikjien either Ian Trehernethe latter professional photographer blind and deaf from birth as a result of having suffered from Usher RP syndrome type 2.
“I need the title of the photo and its description,” he comments Cristian Sainztotally blind due to an accident since he was 18 years old and member of the ONCE digital transformation team. To enjoy these relief photos a little learning is necessary, recognize: “When you have already touched other photos, you become familiar with textures like people’s hair or tree branches”.
The exhibition Invisible Worldwhich is being held this weekend at the headquarters of the General Directorate of ONCE in collaboration with Ilunion and Canon, selects 12 iconic works by as many photographers to display them in soft and precise relief. They can be touched and felt. It is, as its organizers say, “a photography exhibition that you don’t need to see”.
The chosen photos have enormous visual force and they tell several stories at the same time. Not only is each one exhibited in its original format, but also They reproduce by imitating the effect of some injury or visual degeneration. And the most surprising of all is a third image, in relief and at the height of the handsin which you can caress every nuance, every texture of these works.
A Braille text explains what appears in each image, and the exhibition also has an audio guide that can be downloaded to your mobile phone.
With the help of precise printing technology, this exhibition shows a new way of transmitting certain sensations that arts and culture, in this case photography, in some way owe to visually impaired people.
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