The Island of the Colorblind.
In the late 18th century a catastrophic typhoon swept over Pingelap, a tiny atoll in the Pacific. One of the survivors, the king, carried the rare achromatopsia-gen that causes complete colorblindness. As time passed by, the hereditary condition affected the isolated community and the islanders started seeing the world in black and white.
Color is just a word to those who cannot see it. Flames light up in black and white, trees turn pink, a thousand shades of grey, a rainbow revisited. Portraying the islanders that by their fellow Micronesians are referred to as ‘blind’ resulted in a conceptual selection of images that mask their eyes, their face, or their ‘vision’ and invite the viewer to enter a dreamful world of colorful possibilities.
The project consists of two series; ‘normal’ digital images converted to B&W with PS (shot with Nikon D810) and infrared images (shot with a Nikon D700 to IR converted body).
Color is just a word to those who cannot see it. Flames light up in black and white, trees turn pink, a thousand shades of grey, a rainbow revisited. Portraying the islanders that by their fellow Micronesians are referred to as ‘blind’ resulted in a conceptual selection of images that mask their eyes, their face, or their ‘vision’ and invite the viewer to enter a dreamful world of colorful possibilities.
The project consists of two series; ‘normal’ digital images converted to B&W with PS (shot with Nikon D810) and infrared images (shot with a Nikon D700 to IR converted body).