Hello and welcome. My name is Andrew Follows and this is my photography Gallery and News website. I created Blinkie Photography to showcase my unique outlook on the world as a photographer.
Andrew Follows is an inspiring photographer with a social conscience, who is fast becoming established within the arts community. Andrew has an eye condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a condition which has rendered one eye completely blind with ever diminishing tunnel vision in the other. He can see three metres to most people’s seventy metres, and that is through a foggy haze.
Andrew Follows with his Guide Dog, Eamon, have a great partnership and passion for photography as they explore the city looking for great objects to photograph and examine.
After spending many years with some great employment, Andrew started his uni studies and graduated in 2000 with a B.A. in Community Development. While having not much success in obtaining that right job, he moved to his passion to photography. In 2008, Andrew did a year of photography workshops through Photography Made Easy, where through the digital camera opened up a whole new world to him. In late 2009 Andrew got his first DSLR Camera and through the help of Nikon Australia has now moved up a gear in his photography.
Whilst many would see this condition as a reason for not engaging fully in the life of the wider community, this has not been the case for Andrew. He savours what he can see and, with the help of digital photography, has recently begun documenting his vision and care of the world around him. His photographs are professional, unique and inspiring.
The key to the world around Andrew is through his camera. The lens becomes his eyes, the shutter his very existence, the computer his medium of vision enabling him for the first time to see the world more clearly. In the last two years Andrew has exhibited his work in numerous galleries and is looking forward to expanding his market internationally.
So come follow Andrew and Eamon in his exciting journey that he lives in everyday, as Andrew explores his challenges in photography and the world in the visual medium.
