Check out blind photographers' exhibit 'Sight Unseen' in Walnut Creek CA

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The Lesher Center’s Bedford Gallery will display works from 13 world-renowned artists through Sept. 17. June 30, 2023 at 1:48 p.m. This idea is made emphatically by “Sight Unseen: International Photography by Blind Artists,” an exhibit running July 8 through Sept. 17 in the Bedford Gallery at Walnut Creek’s downtown Lesher Center for the Arts ( ).

June 30, 2023 at 1:48 p.m. This idea is made emphatically by “Sight Unseen: International Photography by Blind Artists,” an exhibit running July 8 through Sept. 17 in the Bedford Gallery at Walnut Creek’s downtown Lesher Center for the Arts (

). The featured artists have a range of sight impairment, from completely to legally blind to vision that is significantly limited. The causes are varied and include some, like Henry Butler, a musician who was born blind; other photographers whose complete or partial vision loss came suddenly due to injury; or photographers such as Berkeley-based Alice Wingwall, who lost the ability to see — but never her vision — over decades due to a progressive disease that affects the retina. Architecture, seeing-eye dogs, California landscapes and self-portraits constitute most of her images. Signature framing places and often crops what is the central focus by making use of edges or corners.

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