Sunday, May 25, 2014

Blind veteran shows how he sees world through photography

By the time an inherited eye disease crossed into legal blindness in 2009, Ed Waldrop had already lost the ability to drive and he feared countless other freedoms would soon be next. But what he lost in sight, he gained in a seize-the-day attitude that revived a long-buried, if now unlikely, ambition to make visual art.


(c) JON-MICHAEL SULLIVAN

In the past three years, the Au­gusta Air Force veteran, who serves as the health chaplain at the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, has used what free time he has to transform nature, architecture and vintage cars into unique compositions consistent with how he sees the world.


To read more, read the article in The Augusta Chronicle

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