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An Evening with Bruce Hall, Blind Scuba Diver & PhotographerHe Uses Photography as a Way to SeeIf you're a photographer or simply enjoy photography, the Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City is a definite Los Angeles attraction to be added to your must do list. Currently, the Annenberg Space for Photography presenting the work of
photographers whose work transcends their genre - the oeuvre of
sports photography. Interestingly, they included Bruce Hall, a local Orange County scuba diver who has been legally blind since birth. You wouldn't know it because he doesn't carry a cane not act like what you would expect from someone who is blind. He can see only for about 3 inches in front of his eyes. Imagine that for just a couple of seconds. So he has learned to adapt. And his photos, are quite extraordinary and amazing to see.
A Conversation About the Film
Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers
 Thursday, February 4, 6:30-8:00pm
Hall's work has been published in textbooks, magazines including National Geographic
and shown in juried art exhibitions around the United States. In the
summer of 2006, Hall was honored by the Nature's Best Photography
Magazine's Windland Smith Rice International Awards Competition. The
winning photograph "Giant Kelp" was on display at the National Museum
of Natural History at the Smithsonian, Washington D.C. for a year in
2006.
For the divers in the audience, it affirmed just how wonderful scuba touches so many different people in so many different way and can be enjoyed by non divers alike. Talking with Bruce afterward, his enthusiasm for diving and photography underwater is quite unsurprising - since it's just like the rest of us divers. Bruce lamenting about the rainy weather says - he says, "Can't wait for the weather to clear up a bit and get over to Catalina."
It's gratifying to see scuba diving and underwater photography
be showcased and his art included as way for the rest of the world to see what is
here.
brucehallphoto.com
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