Recently, my vision has been affected by the post-surgery effects of a treatment for retina detachment, preventing me from taking photographs for some time. This unfortunate circumstance has given me the chance to reflect on the meanings of seeing and making photographs.
In the semi-obscurity and limited ability to see, I realised that even without clear external vision my imagination continued to form images within my mind. What I couldn’t see optically, I mentally and emotionally perceived. This experience provided to me irrefutable evidence of something I had known in theory: seeing is no less an interior experience than perception from outside.
As I gradually recover, I’m beginning to produce the photos I’ve already seen in my mind. The photo posted here shows my eye reflecting the camera and myself, in a sense reflecting (on) its own act of seeing and making photographs. Perhaps this shot will mark the beginning of a new photographic project?
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