Growing up watching my mother lose her vision slowly and seeing how she dealt with it affecting her work and life greatly changed my appreciation of the ability I have with my body. In “Sight Life” I explore the life of people experiencing visual impairment. Through photography and audio, I look at the ways in which people with visual impairments may experience the world through other sensations such as touch and sound. I developed this project to not only spread awareness about visual impairment but also to provide an exhibition that could be enjoyed by both visually impaired and fully sighted people simultaneously. I worked with the charity Sight Life, based in South Wales, as well as with individuals I found through this charity to explore the many different types of vision loss and how they can affect people differently.

With my project I hope to challenge misconceptions about visual impairment but also to illustrate that although it does affect everything in someone’s life, it does not consume everything and is simply another challenge that visually impaired people must overcome.