What: Today being World Sight Day, we showcase photographs by the visually challenged and speak to a man who made non-retinal art recognisable in the city — Partho Bhowmick. He shares that it was in early 2004 that he discovered the works of Evgen Bavcar, a well-known visually challenged photographer. Sighted himself, Bhowmick undertook the challenge of teaching the impaired. He informs, “Photography by the blind is ground zero of photography. It’s a part of the international disability art movement know as non-retinal art culture. It is aimed to interrupt the monocular perception and point of view, of the view and enrich art by another approach, by another gaze.”

While going around the place I can feel the change of temperature. It suggested the contract of light. I wanted to capture “light within darkness.” As the movement of the man was described to me, I could capture more than what I wanted — Raju Singh, Student