Event Info

Join us for this program at the Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California on Thursday, November 5 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM where you’ll have an opportunity to see the work of blind photographers in Sight Unseen Revisited, an internationally-known exhibition originally curated by Douglas McCulloh. Photographers Bruce Hall and Kurt Weston will discuss how they approach their work. Moderated by Timothy LeBlanc, curatorial assistant for the project. The Civil Rights Institute is located at 3933 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside.

Speaker Bios:

Bruce Hall is a legally blind photographer, underwater photographer, and disability advocate based in Santa Ana, California. His work has appeared in publications and exhibitions internationally, and he was featured in HBO’s 2010 documentary Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers. In 2015, Bruce and wife Valerie Hall published Immersed: Our Experience with Autism, about their twin sons; a selection was acquired by the Library of Congress. Today, Hall focuses on underwater photography at Catalina Island, photographing giant sea bass.

Kurt Weston, the award winning legally blind photographer has exhibited internationally – most notably – in “Sight Unseen” and the “Transformations” exhibition at the Kennedy Center. Kurt’s work is in the permanent collection of the Houston Fine Arts Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the National AIDS Museum. Weston has an MFA from California State University. His art has been the subject of many interviews including the biography “Journey’s Through Darkness,” and an interview on CNN.

Timothy LeBlanc is a curator based in inland Southern California. His studies at the University of California, Riverside, focused on arts, particularly photography’s, ability to influence the public sphere. He has curated shows previously for UCR ARTS: The California Museum of the Photography & The Art and Barbara Culver Center for the Arts, The Catalina Museum of Art & History, as well as the Brandstater Gallery at La Sierra University.

This program is co-presented by the Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California and the California Museum of Photography.

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