Blind, rejection, tenacity, lifelong learning, sight, vision

1. she met a photography instruc-
tor who she asked to lead her
to a bus park would eventually
discover her inability to settle
for less, and not resolve to beg-
ging as others did. He became
her benefactor, took her
through the training, with the
help of another contributor and
today, she has
received an award
at the Interna-
tional Day of Per-
sons Living with
Disabilites, which
held in Port Har-
court, Nigeria.
Today the blind
school dropout is a successful
photographer.
‘If you can’t see, it’s because
your vision is getting in the
way,’
Thank you for your time. I
would see you in the next se-
ries.
Introduction
Hello there, thank you for taking some time to read through
the Sixth series of Live Full Magazine. In this series, you
would have a deeper knowledge that seeing is not just hav-
ing the sense of sight, that a sense of vision is bigger, even
with physical blindness as an acceptable reality.
Dimensions To Sense Of Sight And Vision
The sense of sight would help us see colour, shape, size and
appearance. As good as our sense of sight is, it would be
hard for us to see in the dark. If our sight is hampered in the
dark, how can we confidently say we can see the invincible
in which the sense of vision is embedded. How do we see
frustration in a relationship and call it bliss? And how can we
interpret an environment that depicts little and we are
asked to see abundance. The sense of vision brings us the
imagination that brings appearance into reality.
A Blind Photographer With Vision!
Can one really pursue a career in photography, if he doesn’t
have the sense of sight? To this question, there are no delib-
erations as I have found a lady, born in south-western Nige-
ria who takes photograph with accuracy as one with sight,
National Dailies were moved with her story and carried it
on pages of Newspapers, today she grants interview on how
without sight she earns a living from photography. Who
would have known that Medical Science had stated that
blind people tend to show more enhanced ability in their
other senses, it was her story
that opened up this already
documented fact.
My name is Taiwo Lawal
Taiwo’s mum got pregnant after
she was raped by a man in their
village, the man later found out
that the twins were born blind
and he absconded. Her
childhood wasn’t with-
out its own hardship, no
clothes or panties to
wear, and feeding be-
came difficult, so they
fed on food that has
been stayed for days,
and had probably gone
bad. She experienced
public ridicule by people who
knew her background, and oth-
ers who shamed her when she
fell into a ditch. She wasn’t held
back , and decided to learn
some skills in a four year period,
in bead and bag making. In an
experience she couldn’t explain,
BLIND PHOTOGRAPHER
10th August, 2015 Volume 1 Issue 6
LIVE FULL MAGAZINE!
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