Blind With Camera

Bhavesh Patel

partho — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:58:34 +0000

Bhavesh was born blind. He is a student of St. Xavier’s College Mumbai, his interest in movies is reflected in the storyboard like series of pictures taken by him.

Satvir Yogi

partho — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:36:24 +0000

Satvir was born with low vision in both eyes. He is a student of St. Xavier’s College Mumbai and has interest in computer and music.

Vaibhav Girkar

partho — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:53:19 +0000

Vaibhav has low vision in both eyes. He is student of St. Xavier’s College Mumbai and has interest in sports and music.

Ravi Thakur

partho — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:31:47 +0000

Ravi was born blind. He studied in St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai and completed master degree in Social Science. Currently he is working with the National Association for the Blind (NAB) in Mumbai

Mahesh Umrrania

partho — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:52:10 +0000

Mahesh Umrrania

was born with normal sight, he lost sight completely in both eye at the age of nine. He is educated in a blind school, currently he is doing diploma in Indian classical music from Bombay University. He wants to be a reputed sitar player. Mahesh has vivid memories of the visual world including colors, but he does not remember faces of people even of his patients and family members.

”Photography reconnects me to the visual world to which I always belong”

Raju Singh

partho — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:27:42 +0000

Raju Singh was born with normal sight. His eye condition deteriorated with time and developed partial blindness at the age of five. Presently he has low vision with limited depth of field, he can see the objects like one would see through glass covered with thick grease, far the object foggier it appears. He studied in a blind school, currently working as computer instructor with a corporate. He had taken pictures before.

“ I could see the three dimensional visual world much clearly in the photo print by bring it close to my eyes. Photography helps me to see better”

Kanchan Pamnani

partho — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:20:28 +0000

Kanchan Pamnani is a solicitor who specializes in civil and corporate matters. The interest in photography was evident when she bought her first camera while still in school however the interest had to lie in abeyance during the period of some vision, low vision and no vision.

“The interest in photography has been rekindled when a hope was held out that the ‘No Visions’ had adequate vision to develop an interest into a hobby.”

Sunil Bhavsar

partho — Mon, 25 May 2009 09:45:10 +0000

Snil Bhavsar was born with normal sight and subsequently developed low sight. He is a student of the Victoria Memorial School for the Blind. He has interest in arts & crafts and he plays cricket.

“Taking picture is big fun and lots of exciting”

Praveen Bhosale

partho — Mon, 25 May 2009 09:12:16 +0000

Praveen Bhosale was born with normal sight and subsequently developed partial sight. He is student of the Victoria Memorial School for the Blind, Mumbai. He is interest in arts and crafts and he plays cricket.

“Camera is more than a toy to me, it can capture my imagination.”

Nikhil Mundhe

partho — Mon, 25 May 2009 09:01:26 +0000

Nikhil Mundhe was born with visual disability, he can not see details of a object but can see only foggy outline of a object in daylight. He is a student the Victoria Memorial School for the Blind, Mumbai. He plays tabla and drums and has interest in cricket and football.

“I use to wonder how people take pictures, I’m very happy that I too can take pictures.”