F22
2018, Estonie
This photographic and audio series is the first project I exhibited. I am a self-taught artist. Therefore, I am aware this work is very clumsy. Still, I believe there is in it interesting things to discover. 
F22 is a photographic and audio series produced in Tallinn with blind participants (Elisa-beth Egel, Merylin Jaeski and Katrin Margus) and another photographer (Anton Serdjukov). This piece focuses on the landscape as perceived by blind people. During excursions in Tallinn, the participants chose places where they wanted to describe their perception of space and landscape. Each sensory description was combined with a photograph taken at the same time. 
For many years, the sense of sight is considered as superior to the others in our societies. This was mentionned for the first time by Aristotle. Nowadays, there are many discussions between philosophers and scientists regarding this hierarchy of senses. But in the meantime, humans have been evolving and growing for hundreds of years considering sight as their main sense.
Scientists say people perceive up to 80% of all their impressions through the sight. Yet, the blind could read only with the sense of touch. For them, tasks like moving around and avoiding obstacles are possible only with the help of the ears. They can recognize someone only by the person's voice, smell or footsteps. 
This project attempts to examine this hierarchy of senses through the perspective of photography. F22 represents one of the smallest possible apertures which allows less light  to enter the camera. Through this small aperture we are trying to slip slowly into the world of other senses.
This series was exhibited at Tallinn Kesklinna Noortekeskus (Tallinn, Estonia) in 2018 and funded by Erasmus+.