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Rachael Andrews is a visually impaired photographer who first used a camera purely as a practical tool to help her see everyday objects such as food labels.

Pranav Lal is a photographer from New Delhi, India who, despite his blindness, is able to take photos thanks to The vOICe, a device that turns live camera images into sounds that he can use to compose his images.

Apple just launched a new ad campaign called "Behind the Mac," featuring stories of how people are using the company's gadgets and technology in special ways. One of the creatives featured is photographer Bruce Hall, who's legally blind. You can watch his feature in this 1-minute ad.

Here's a 3-minute video by Wex Photo Video about portrait photographer Ian Treherne, a man who succeeds despite deafness and blindness.

I am colorblind. And I am a photographer. In my particular case, and in the majority of those that are "color challenged", being colorblind doesn't actually mean we cannot see colors. Or at least, without borrowing your eyes and brain for a while and comparing what we see, I don't believe this to be the case.

Here's a short 2-minute feature by Great Big Story about the life and work of photographer Steven Erra, who isn't allowing his loss of vision and eventual blindness get in the way of his light painting photo work.

Here's a wonderful 6-minute documentary about the Seeing with Photography Collective, a New York-based group that brings together the work of visually impaired and sighted photographers.

I’m colorblind.

There it is, I said it. I’ve been holding it back for years, before I even knew I wanted to be a photographer and it feels good to put it out there. I’ve told exactly two photographers about my handicap before tonight but I feel like its time to put it out there publicly. I was ashamed of it but I’m not anymore. It’s part of who I am.

Australian-based photographer Brendon Borellini sees the world differently than most of us. In fact, he doesn’t really see it at all. This is because Borellini was born with congenital deafness and partial blindness, which has since turned into complete blindness.

You're probably thinking to yourself that these disabilities aren’t exactly conducive to becoming a photographer, but Borellini has overcome them, making the most of every ounce of life doing what he loves.

When Pete Eckert found out he was going to lose his sight to retinitis pigmentosa 27 years ago, he was well on his way to becoming an architect, receiving acceptances from graduate programs. It was also around this time that he discovered his mother's old camera.

He's now an award-winning photographer, and in the above short by The Avant/Garde Diaries, he describes how he sees the world and uses his photography to create "a bridge between the world of the blind and sighted."

Take away the visual element from photography and what have you got?

Quite a lot, according to Partho Bhowmick, founder of the Blind With Camera project in Mumbai, India, which to date has taught more than 500 blind people how to express themselves through photography (you can find a gallery here).

A team of researchers led by PhD student Dustin Adams at the University of California at Santa Cruz have created an amazing application that may someday soon help visually impaired photo enthusiasts and photographers take better photos.

Sonia Soberats' journey in photography didn't start until she couldn't see the photographs she was producing. Around two decades ago, she lost her eyesight to glaucoma between losing her son to Hodgkin's disease and her daughter to ovarian cancer. At the turn of the century, Soberats began taking photography lessons in New York City as a form of therapy and self-expression. Her technique of choice? Light painting.

A wedding photographer specially created this "super contrast" image so that a blind groom could see pictures of his big day.

A photographer is running "Stranger Sessions" which are couples' photo shoots -- except that the said "couple" have never met, seen, or spoken to each other before.

If you're a wildlife photographer who uses a hunting blind to stay hidden from your subjects, you might want to check out Tragopan. It's a relatively young brand that's designing blinds specifically for the needs of photographers, not hunters.

Here's a 15-minute video featuring the internationally acclaimed sports photographer David Katz, a man who was diagnosed as being legally blind when he was just 3 months old.

Canon Australia has been sharing a series of inspiring experiments through a series called THE LAB. For its latest video, titled "The Menu," 3 photographers were asked to shoot photos based on a blind tasting of a restaurant's food.

My photography journey started a little differently from most because I was going into it with a handicap right off the bat. It was always a thought that I may not be able to make this work, and that I'd fail miserably, and nobody wants that. From birth, I’ve had a disability that you’d think would make me the last person to get into photography: I’m legally blind.

Photographer Gary Albertson calls himself "the luckiest unlucky guy in the world." In 2010, after decades spent shooting the outdoors, he developed a rare form of glaucoma that has left him with little more than a circle of peripheral vision in each eye. But after some time away from the camera he's come back stronger than ever, creating photography so stunning he's attracted the attention of a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist.

Cincinnati native Amy Hildebrand was born completely blind due to albinism, a disorder in which the body is unable to produce melanin (the pigment that gives color to hair, skin, and eyes).

Famous memory card maker Lexar announced its (now outdated) 2024 roster of "Lexar Elite Photographers" this week, and many online commenters quickly noticed something each of the seven photographers have in common: They're all men.

Several survivors of the October 7 attacks on Israel have sued the Associated Press (AP) for hiring freelance photojournalists who are allegedly "embedded with Hamas."

Photographers in Minnesota have been left reeling after being banned from dance tournaments. The league has hired its own photographers whose pictures will be available to purchase by the public.

Google has revealed its ad for Super Bowl 2024 which shows off the Pixel 8's feature for disabled people by following a blind man and his girlfriend.

A wedding photographer in Japan has died after he fell from the roof of a restaurant while photographing a couple as they prepared for their wedding.

Two freelance photographers have filed a lawsuit over injuries they suffered after alleging police unlawfully shot them with rubber bullets as they covered the 2020 protests.

A photographer and camera operator who dove on the ill-fated Titan sub with Stockton Rush was alarmed by the OceanGate CEO's cavalier attitude.

A photographer has recalled the day a shark bit his leg off and why he now fights to advocate for the creatures through portraiture -- despite his life-changing injuries.

A photographer will get a $105,000 payout from the City of Atlanta after being arrested during the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest in 2020.

Astrophotographer Bray Falls recently posted a series of striking images on Instagram that instantly caught PetaPixel's eye. Falls' photos aren't just visually stunning; they represent a brand-new discovery, a significant accomplishment for any astrophotographer.

A group of photographers was nearly run over by a Formula 1 car during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix yesterday, and an inquiry is now underway to find out what happened.