Tell Me What You See

Tell me what you see

Pasquale Rescigno

“Moved by an interest due to the loss of the right eye in childhood, I continue my investigation into the world of blindness, between those who are afraid of the dark and those who embrace it”

Tell me what you see is a project that questions various aspects of visual loss, the condition of the blind and their interpretation of the world we know. Investigating these rebirths in the dark, interpreting and translating them photographically. Due to this disability, the job opportunities for those affected by blindness are very limited. Adding the low economic aid from the state, these factors increase the importance of private centers aimed at helping the blind, especially in areas of the world where progressive diseases resulting in visual impairment or blindness are not economically accessible. These various stories and situations make up the various chapters of photographic research:

The life of a couple of musicians, Silvano and Manuela. A ménage a trois between the two lovers and the music; the last is the central fulcrum, it binds Silvano and Manuela inA continuous dialogue that imparts a melodic nuance to even the most mundane gestures, revealing a light that is otherwise invisible to us.

The discipline of baseball for the blind, a sport invented in Bologna where the first European championship took place. This sport is not intended to be a forced adaptation, but a discipline that takes on connotations that are very distant and linked to the world of the blind.

Buenos Aires, Argentina. I tell the normality of the ASAC dormitories, where blind people with economic or mental problems can live in the recreation and rehabilitation center where, in addition to various recreational activities, patients can work, followed in safety, to acquire a new independence according to new standards.

In the union of the blind of Milan I document the various activities proposed: sometimes to an acquisition of independence such as Braille literacy, other times artistic and recreational. During the hours of dance or theater we can observe a clear emotional transposition of what remains aninvisible world for us.

Bogota, Colombia. The activities of the CRACK rehabilitation center, where patients can regain independence and form a community. The testimonies of those who develop a vision in the absence of the inflated visual sense help me to touch on issues that do not concern blindness but rather the search for the meaning of reality according to different inputs.