Korean students' photography featured in unique exhibit.
Article Type: Brief article
Subject: Medical colleges (Exhibitions)
Children, Blind (Exhibitions)
Children, Blind (Vocational guidance)
Nature photography (Exhibitions)
Author: Oh, Kate
Pub Date: 05/01/2012
Publication: Name: Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind Audience: Academic Format: Magazine/Journal Subject: Health Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2012 American Foundation for the Blind ISSN: 0145-482X
Issue: Date: May, 2012 Source Volume: 106 Source Issue: 5
Geographic: Geographic Scope: South Korea Geographic Code: 9SOUT South Korea
Accession Number: 290520537
Full Text: Eleven students from the Hanbit School for the Blind, located in South Korea, recently exhibited their photography at Insight Exhibition, which was organized by Samsung and Kate Oh, vice president and executive creative director of Cheil Worldwide, a marketing and communications company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. The students worked with professional photographer Kang Young-ho, who taught them how to take photographs using different senses--hearing, smell, and touch. Then the students used special cameras that were designed to automatically track and capture the subject of a photograph. The students began snapping images around their school and homes, and eventually Samsung and Cheil flew them to Jeju island, a volcanic island off the coast of South Korea. It was the first time some of the students had ever flown on an airplane. Some of the photographs featured in the exhibition show dry reeds bending in the wind, birds in flight, and one simply depicts the toes of a boy's feet curled into wet sand. Samsung and Cheil plan to continue and expand the program for the students at the Hanbit school. For more information, contact: Kate Oh, vice president and executive creative director, Cheil Worldwide, Seoul, South Korea; web site: .
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