Web Feature: Blind use cameras to capture their world

by Jane Lyons
March 28, 2008

WHEN Sue McLeod takes photographs, there are two things she can’t leave home without. Digital camera? Check. Seeing-eye cane? Check.

Blind since a meningitis attack at the age of three, Ms McLeod is aware of the raised eyebrows she receives. “Really? Really, Sue?” she says, parodying the sceptics. “Yeah,” she responds defiantly, “I can take photos.” Ms McLeod, 40, is part of Local Eyes - Our Community Through A Different Lens, a photography project that is equal parts self-expression, art therapy and social conscience.

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View finder . . . Helen Cross, a professional photographer, helps Sue McLeod come to grips with a digital camera.

Photo: David Jenkins