How tactile photographs for the blind enrich everyone’s experience | Truls Nord | TEDxStockholm

Our culture is based to a large degree on visual communication, where the impact of photographs, drawings, paintings, architecture and even sculptures rely on the interplay of light and shadow. But what about the blind? Photographer and artist Truls Nord developed a printing technique that allows them to experience an image in their own terms, opening up a world of highlights and shadows that sighted people usually take for granted.

Truls Nord is an artist working with film, photographs and installations, with the intention to inspire, encourage or push his audience to lead a personal, economical and ecological sustainable life. In his 2011 project Tactile Photography, Truls developed an innovative method that allows people without sight to experience both content and atmosphere in photographs and other complex images. Truls is a co-founder of FLUST, an organization promoting artistic diversity, accessibility and civic engagement through collaborative projects.

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Amazing, very nice to see someone is making tactile images that are more descriptive than just changing to different texture for each tone