Sight Unseen.

Head On Photo Festival 2013

Kerry Pryor

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Dates: 29 May 2013 - 09 Jun 2013

Location: Global Gallery 5 Comber St Paddington NSW 2021 Australia

Hours: Tue-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 12pm-4pm

Entry Fee: Free

Exhibition Event:

Official Opening 29/05/2013 8:00 am

In January 2012 Kerry Pryor documented the work of “Eyes for Africa,” a non-profit organisation that funds cataract eye surgery for people in extremely remote areas of Ethiopia.

The portraits in this body of work document people who are waiting for surgery or to be seen by a doctor. Often the patients have walked for miles, are too poor to afford shoes, quite frail and exhausted by the time they arrive at the clinic.

Photographing a person who is blind was something I had not fully appreciated would come with such added complexities. With very difficult language barriers, many of the sitters struggled to ascertain exactly whre I am.

This visit to Ethiopia changed the way I work. I slowed down and really connected with the sitter.