The importance of photography in investigating the visual processing characteristics of Cerebral Visual Impairment and the photographic image as a tool to communicate a neurodivergent understanding of visual experience to a visually neurotypical audience.
Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) is a brain based visual condition whereby information from the eyes is not processed effectively along the visual pathways to the brain resulting in a variety of visual difficulties (McKillop, et al, Dutton, 2010). This research will be investigating the relationships between photography and CVI whilst reversing the hierarchy of normative ideologies associated with the study of disability by placing emphasis on the visually neurodivergent as the benchmark for comparison when learning about and understanding visual neurotypicality. It will focus specifically on how photographic practice can be used to provide a new non-generic insight into perceptual experiences of CVI, and how by developing and communicating this understanding using photography, it will be possible to reveal new characteristics of a neurotypical visual perception.
Speaker at Cerebral Visual Impairment Society Convention "Opening doors" - November 2019, Bristol UK
Future: Speaker at American Conference on Paediatric Visual Impairment, 2022, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
