Photography by Blind Artists: Eugen Bucard

_{Evgen Bavcar: Dream of Motion (1997)}

I love Evgen Bavcar's Dream of Motion. A white bicycle on a black background, with five swallows being pulled through the air by a floating hand.

"Sight Unseen" , an exhibit at UCR/California Museum of Photography pulls together the work of twelve blind photographers from around the world.

Yes. Blind. Not experimenting with the camera, but highly skilled artists bent on capturing what they "see" in the world around them.

The artists interpret "sight" broadly. This isn't straightforward documentary work - pointing a camera at something that seems like it might be interesting for gallery visitors. It is, as often, an attempt to pose, stage, or create a scene that comes from inside the artist's mind. So we can see how the blind see.