Call with Rosita McKenzie - Blind Photographer Edinburgh 17th June 2019

http://rositamckenzie.co.uk/
Call, notes:

• Interested
• Fiona Powell (friend) maybe interested too. Rosita to enquire
• Scene Scotland, Glasgow - deal with disabled artists
• Trained as a disability consultant, London. Involved with access and disability
• No sight since a child
• Began photography in 2006. No training. Experimental
• Requires others to help open shutter etc
• Runs workshops to teach sighted people photography. Uses sim specs for the sighted to understand blindness/visual impairment
• Mentioned app 'be my eyes'
• Involved with artwalkporty - open house etc in Portobello
• Edinburgh Sculpture workshop, participated for years
• Touch workshop for the blind and sighted