Blind Spot by Maud Rowell

Blind Spot by Maud Rowell

A powerful exploration of blindness and the blind spots in all of us. Two million people in the UK live with sight loss, yet blindness remains widely misunderstood. From the design of our cities and cultural institutions to the stories we tell about the past, the world is built around sight and blind people are too often left out of it. In Blind Spot, Maud Rowell explores the realities of living with sight loss, challenging assumptions about accessibility, independence and inclusion. Combining personal experience with research and interviews, she uncovers the hidden barriers woven into everyday life while celebrating the artists, explorers, scientists and innovators whose achievements have too often been overlooked. Thought-provoking and illuminating, Blind Spot invites us to look again at what we take for granted and to recognise the blind spots in our own understanding.

Maud Rowell is a freelance writer and translator based in London. After a year in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, she read Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge and then attained a Masters degree in magazine journalism. At age nineteen she was diagnosed with a degenerative sight condition, and since then she has used her writing to explore the topic of blindness, often through the lens of art and art history. In 2021, she won the Holman Prize, an annual $25,000 grant from the San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, enabling her to undertake a year-long trip around remote parts of Japan. Hobbies include reading multilingual and experimental fiction, film photography processed in a makeshift darkroom at home and creative writing, in both Japanese and English.

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ISBN 13	9781916637429
Title	Blind Spot
Author	Maud Rowell
Series	Inklings
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Saraband
Number of pages	128
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