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


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