Photos by Blind Photographers

(c) by the artist, courtesy of UCR/California Museum of Photography

Kurt Weston, My Dying Machine
One of Weston's techniques involves asking his subjects to place their faces on a scanner-as-camera. This not only gives his work a tone of hyperrealism, but creates an extremely shallow area of focus where flesh compressed against the glass is vivid and detailed, but anything farther away quickly fades into blur and black.

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