Pete Eckert became blind at the age of 27 due to a medical condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa, which slowly takes a person's sight little by little. When this horrible things happened to him he did something very interesting...he became a photographer.
One day while he was cleaning out his mother-in-law's drawers he came across an old 1950's Kodak camera. He fooled around with it and decided he to use the infra-red setting, thinking it would be humorous if a blind man was doing photography in a non-visible wavelength.
Eckert sees himself more as a conceptual artist than just a photographer. He only uses touch, sounds and memory to create a picture that he sees in his head.
Some of his most interesting works have been done inside a church. These photographs are very different from anything I have ever seen before, and it is truly inspiring that someone who probably feels like he has lost everything is able to create such beautiful and interesting works of art involving faith and religion.
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