What to know: Filmmaker Rodney Evans has put together a documentary featuring artists with low vision and blindness to paint a picture of life as an artist with a disability.
Evans, who lives with the vision condition retinitis pigmentosa, described the project as “four different paths to the imagination.” In an interview with NPR about the documentary, he discussed his own challenges with his peripheral vision describing it as, “akin to looking through a telescope or a horse with blinders.” I was able to have a certain kind of trust and an intimacy in the interviews because I was coming from the perspective of someone who was a low-vision artist and understood from the inside what their perspective was.” — Rodney Evans, NPR The Frontlines
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