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Seeing in Isolation Events in June and July

Seeing in Isolation: In Conversation with Blind & Visually Impaired International Photographers on Wednesday 30 June 2021, 6 to 8pm

Do you need to have sight to take photographs? This question will be explored at this event that brings together blind and visually impaired international photographers: Bruce Hall, Karren Visser, Mickel Smithen, Pete Eckert and Sonia Soberats to present their work and be in conversation with curator Douglas McCulloh of exhibition ‘Sight Unseen: International Photography by Blind Artists’.

The event is accessible to all. The photographs shared in the presentation will be audio-described and there will be a BSL interpreter. Sign up for the free photography Zoom event or email info@multistory.org.uk with your name, number of tickets required and postcode.  The Zoom link will be sent nearer the time.

In a bright room a woman in a red top stands behind an item of furniture covered by a white sheet
Self-Portrait, 2021 © Karren Visser. Seeing in Isolation, produced by Multistory and Karren Visser, 2021.

Seeing in Isolation: audio description in photography and art on Thursday 8 July 2021, 10am to 12 noon.

Using ‘Seeing in Isolation’ as a springboard for discussion, Multistory is collaborating with VocalEyes to bring together different perspectives on audio description. Speakers will include visually impaired photographer, Karren Visser; disability consultant and trainer, Kirin Saeed; writer, performer and activist, Mandy Redvers-Rowe; CEO of VocalEyes, Matthew Cock; visual artist specialising in drawing and painting, Sally Booth; and Chair of Sandwell Visually Impaired and TV audio description advocate, Tony Averis.

Speakers have been invited to make their case for audio description and their presentations will be followed by a discussion and questions from the audience.

This event is for people interested in accessibility and inclusion in the arts including artists and creatives, arts organisations, academics and voluntary and community organisations, regardless of whether you have experience of audio description.

The event is accessible to all. The photographs shared in the presentation will be audio-described and there will be a BSL interpreter. Sign up for the free audio description Zoom event on the link here or email info@multistory.org.uk with your name, number of tickets required and postcode.  The Zoom link will be sent nearer the time.

At the centre of this image is an Asian woman in her thirties seated outdoors at a café; she’s smiling and wearing sunglasses and a red shirt. Behind her are tables with yellow umbrellas shading groups of people who are socialising on a sunny day.
Photograph of Perm at Hatton Country Royal Inn, Warwickshire; image provided by Perm. Seeing in Isolation, produced by Multistory and Karren Visser, 2021. Perm says: ‘what you can’t see are my green shoes. I’m not colour co-ordinated at all and I had no excuse then as I had no visual problems at this stage.’