前言：视觉之外的艺术

2013年01月07日16:30 | 中国发展门户网 www.chinagate.cn | 给编辑写信字号：T|T

关键词：中国助残艺术盲人摄影成果非视觉表达残疾人

Introduction: “Art Beyond Sight”

前言：“视觉之外的艺术”

The “Art Beyond Sight” Non-Visual Photography activity is a joint activity of two partners of an HI supported project, with One Plus One (Beijing) Disabled Persons’ Cultural Development Center and the Tibet Blind Association. One Plus One is the first local disabled person’s organization who brought the concept of non-visual photography into China. For this project, in August 2012, two visually impaired trainers from One Plus One went to Tibet and trained 9 visually impaired students (blind and partially sighted) from the Tibet Blind School for a week on the subject of non-visual photography. The photos that are presented in this exhibition are the outcome of this training.

本次《视觉之外的艺术》非视觉摄影展，是来自国际助残长期支持的两家项目合作伙伴：一加一（北京）残障人文化发展中心和西藏盲人协会，举办的一次联合活动。一加一作为中国本土残障人自助型的非营利组织之一，第一个将盲人非视觉摄影概念和项目引入中国。为了本次活动，一加一的2名视障培训师在2012年8月来到西藏为西藏盲校的9名视障 (全盲和低视力) 学生进行了为其一周的非视觉摄影主题培训。本次展览的照片即为这次培训的成果。

Sight, for photographers who can see, is their principal working tool, to recognize and interpret the objects that surround them. It is for this reason that photography is considered a visual art. However, photography is more than just a visual art - it is a tool that photographer use to express themselves and it requires a process of identification, reaction and creation, regardless of what senses are used to achieve this. Now, visually impaired photographers use their other senses in addition to and other than sight to create images. Touch, smell and sound are used to discover subjects, and understand the impact of distance. Through captions of each picture, they tell us their understanding and discovery of the world.

视觉，对于普通的摄影师来说，在他们的工作中用来认知和感受周围物体，是不可或缺的。因此，摄影被认为是一种视觉艺术。然而，摄影本身不仅仅只是一门视觉艺术，它更是一种摄影者本人自我表达和观察世界的一种工具, 是一个认知、反应和创造的过程，无论摄影者用何种感觉来实现这个过程。如今，视障摄影师拿起了相机，透过他们视觉以外的其他感觉：听觉、触觉、嗅觉和味觉，利用摄影的手段创作图片，并在文字描述的辅助下，告诉我们他对世界的理解和探索。

By using photography, visually impaired people can share their feelings and experiences with other people and get the opportunity to communicate expressions of their own creativity, with mainstream society. Blind and partially sighted people who participated in the non-visual photography activity are excited to have the opportunity to take pictures and get involved in the visual world – a world they might previously have been excluded from. They are fully committed to this and hope to share their work with others. It is not only an unique opportunity for them to present their work and communicate with mainstream society but also an innovation which allows the general public to understand visually impaired people from a different perspective, which, it is hoped, will help mainstream society to realize and trust visually impaired people’s abilities, leading to greater inclusion and respect for them.

通过摄影，视障人士可以和他人平等的分享他们的感受和经验，并且有机会向社会公众展示他们的创造力。有机会参与盲人非视觉摄影的盲和低视力人士，对于进入一个之前将他们排除在外的视觉的世界感到非常的兴奋，全心投入的完成一次次练习并希望有机会可以向别人展示他们的作品。非视觉摄影不仅仅是一个视障人能够把自身的感受和体验与别人分享，获得从未有过的向主流社会表达和沟通的机会。同时也是一种创新的形式使社会公众从另一个更加趋于真实和客观的角度理解视障人，从而能够发掘和信任视障人士的潜能，进而能够真正做到接纳、尊重视障群体！

The great power of any creative undertaking is to engage in a dialogue with an audience. The photographic medium is used to communicate something, regardless of whether the photographer can see or not, and a key element to photography are the emotions involved at the very moment the image is taken.

任何创作的过程都是摄影者本人与自己、他人的对话过程，照片是交流的媒介，无论摄影师能否看见。而且，摄影的关键元素是照片被拍摄时摄影师投入的情绪。

The very concept of photography by visually impaired people provides an opportunity to explore ideas around vision, blindness, sensory experience and imagery. For blind or partially sighted people, therefore, photography goes beyond its technical and visual aspects. It is about a process of creation, expression and communication that can help address feelings of isolation and provide the means to engage in society, as well as creating dialogue between the seeing and non seeing world.

盲人非视觉摄影，为人们提供了一个了解视觉、盲人、感官经历和想象力的机会，对于盲和低视力人士来说，摄影已经超越了技术和视觉的层面。它是一个用来描述他们被隔绝的情感的过程，是创造、表达和交流的过程，是帮助他们融入社会的手段，以及建立视障人士和明眼人之间对话的渠道。

“Being blind doesn’t mean I can’t feel about the world, it is that I do it from a different angle” By one visually impaired photographer

“失明并不代表我们无法感知这个世界，只是我们的角度不同而已。”

-视障摄影师