Ongoing sight loss
My approach to photography keeps me connected to my surroundings and better equipped to navigate them.
Carrying camera equipment and holding my long white cane, I am on the platform waiting for the Metro tram in the West Midlands. I had been working with Sandwell Visually Impaired on the Unseen Memories project.
Photo credit: Steve Keenan
Project beginnings
The video clip offers an insight into my need to constantly adapt my creative practice.
AI research
An interest in image generation came from my wish to use my photography and audio description skills.
Against a dark backdrop of mountainous shapes and a cloudy sky, two slender vertical strips display self‑portraits on the left, AI-generated images on the right. White text prompts and yellow‑white connecting lines link them.
summary
A collaboration with AI engineer Ilia Pavlov (Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts, London).
Documented in this visual outline are examples of Ilia and my tests, shown as 7 separate boards. These trace our shared process of exploration and discovery, inviting further questions and experimentation.
Karren Visser 