Name: Exploring the ‘Island of the Colour Blind’ with Sanne De Wilde
Uploaded: 2021-11-02T02:06:41.000Z
Duration: 3 min 14 s
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This photograph is the key image of the series,

is centred around a certain genetic trail

and that shapes and forms their community

or their personal life or their physical identity.

The Island of the Colorblind is a series about achromatopsia

There's an island in the Pacific in Micronesia

where there's an extremely high percentage

of this very extraordinary kind of colour blindness

I started photography developing in the dark room.

In black and white, on film and making my own prints.

Since then, I never touched black and white

I invited achromatopic people from the Netherlands and Belgium

to bring colour back into my black and white images,

People felt free and at the same time struggled

with not being able to have control over colour as well,

because I wouldn't tell them which colours they were using.

And it makes people feel unsecure and uncomfortable.

During the painting sessions I organised, I met Annefloor.

and she has achromatopic vision and she's super talented.

and really added on another layer to the work

by really allowing me to see through her eyes.

To Pingelap I brought my D700 that I had converted to infrared

and the D810 that I used as a normal camera.

because I wanted to find a way for myself to redefine

and rediscover colour while shooting the project.

With this converted camera that reads light differently,

I was also triggered to rethink the colour perspective

and the result of that are images that are so surreal in their colours

that it makes people open up to this whole new reality

if you let go of the conventional way of looking at it.

The work The Island of the Colorblind is about trying to open people's eyes

but as strength, as something that is a richness,

as something that adds on to your own reality that you create

and that you have the power to create and that you create in your own way.

And it's about connecting vision at the same time acknowledging

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Exploring the ‘Island of the Colour Blind’ with Sanne De Wilde

literally

perspective

extraordinary

struggle