COLOR/BLIND TEST

Color blindess is a physical disability that affects both men and women. Affecting visual perception, it is caused by the lack of color receptors in the eye. People with red-green color blindness have difficulty discriminating between red and green. It is a condition over which they have no control. Color vision tests were created to detect this condition.

The work in this series COLOR/BLIND are inspired by the dot patterns in the commonly used, Ishihara color vision test. However, these abstractized photographs depict people who have been marginalized, disenfranchised or dehumanized.

The subjects in COLOR/BLIND have become objects, invisible in society. These are people we choose not to see, people who do not surface on the radar of public perception. They are often people on the edge of society for example, the starving woman in Darfur, an elderly, wheelchair bound woman, a prison inmate, a woman in a burkha. These people, ignored by society, no longer "count". They are not rich, famous, powerful or celebrities. We have control over who we wish to acknowledge or not, but almost involuntarily, as a symptom of our self gratifying desires, we become COLOR/BLIND.

- Sinan Revell