Funding Tier: Tier 2: US$5.000 - Established artists who are new to NFTs
Project Overview:
*** Project title and description: The Vision of Blindness
A blind man and a photographer team up to create a photographic project using blindness to convey a message of hope and resilience through a photobook and a collection of 30 NFT photographs.
Each NFT is part of an audiobook story and collectors will be able to access exclusive content on the creative process between Pablo and José María.
Why are you interested in creating this project and or collection?
I am passionate about portraits and stories. José María is an exceptional character and I want to give a voice using photography to inspire thousands of people with his life story. I am interested in presenting a project that generates the idea of inclusion in web 3.0
Project Details:
High level conceptual approach
“I carry the light so that others do not collide” says Jose María, born blind a 71 years old in Tumaco, Colombia. Our friendship began in Cali in 2014 when one afternoon he agreed to be photographed. Our conversations took us back to his childhood, to his dreams, to his passion for literature, to the complexities of living in a society that privileges vision. Blindness is the raw material of this project that was born when Jose affirms that he has the ability to see when he dreams. At that moment, we decided to make a reinterpretation of his most significant dreams to translate them into images through photography and video in a process of collective and collaborative creation between the photographer and the blind.
We want to continue building this long-term project by creating a collection of 45 NTF photographs that will be minted in a marketplace and will have as unlockable content a series of audios with stories and testimonies from José María, as well as a virtual and interactive photobook with audios and that will be the unlockable item from the 15 rarities of the NFTs collection.
The funds raised will be destined to help Jose María and reinvested to continue expanding the project.
Any design mockups or sketches
Overview of the mediums being used
Photography
Your collection’s themes and thesis
Collection theme: The vision of blindness
Thesis: A blind man and a photographer decide to get together to co-create a photographic project using the blindness and dreams of a blind man to make visible a history of inclusion and resilience.
Team:
Pablo Chaco. Visual artist and educator
[email protected]
https://twitter.com/Pa3loChaco
https://www.instagram.com/pablochaco/
Visual Artist from the ESADMM (Marseille, France, 2012) and scholarship holder from the CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China. 2013). His work has been selected in the collection “The Face of Portraiture” curated by Rebecca Wilson of the Saatchi Art gallery (USA, 2013 and has been published in specialized photography magazines such as Focus Visual and C41 MAGAZINE. His work is part of the collection of the Image Center of Mexico, the Center of the Arts of Monterrey and the Amparo Museum of Puebla, Mexico In 2019 he has been selected in the call for exhibitions of the Photography Center of Montevideo (CdF) and invited to exhibit at the Museo Amparo de Puebla in Mexico.In 2016, he founded Semilleros de Consciencia, an educational complement that proposes new pedagogical alternatives through art and the humanities.Between 2017 and 2019 he worked in the faculty of integrated arts of the Universidad del Valle as Artistic Trainer in the Mi Comunidad es Escuela project that operates in 45 Official Educational Institutions and that seeks to strengthen basic skills from the arts in the educational community. s winner of the stimulus for the circulation of photographic content of the call “United for life” of the culture secretariat of Cali.
José María Piñeiro: Lawyer and co-creator of this project.
Tumaco, September 8, 1951. José María Piñeiro is born, blind from birth, to a peasant family. He went through life like a normal child, carrying out all the activities of childhood, regardless of whether he could see or not.
He always wanted to study. When she arrived at school, the teacher replied: “I don’t teach blind people”. At that moment he woke up to his reality, a reality he hadn’t been aware of before, a reality he hadn’t faced. Since then he assumed that his blindness made him different.
José María attended the school as an assistant, but did not formally attend primary school. He learned to read and write braille. Then he entered school from fifth grade. He graduated and although it was difficult to enter the university, he obtained his law degree from the Universidad Libre in 1985 and later did a postgraduate degree in Foreign Trade.
He was an outstanding student, and this gave him the opportunity to teach classes and conferences at different universities such as the Universidad Libre, Santiago de Cali, San Buenaventura, among others.
Team Experience:
2020 “The vision of blindness” Ministry of Culture Cali, Colombia
2020 “Of men and Woods” Verzasca Photo Festival Verzasca, Switzerland
http://www.verzascafoto.com/artists
2020 “Pacific Ritual and resistance” Fotogalerie Friedrichshain Berlin, Germany
https://fotogalerie.berlin/austellungen/archiv/english-2020-2025/?lang=en
2019 AFRICAN AMERICANS - Museo Amparo de Puebla. Curated by Claudí Carreras. Puebla, Mexico
https://museoamparo.com/exposicions/puertas/231/africamericanos
2019 “FROM THE BRAVO TO PLATA” Fotomuseo 4 Caminos CDMX, Mexico
2019 Montevieo Photography Center (CdF) Montevideo, Uruguay
https://cdf.montevideo .gub.uy/content/fotosecuencias-pedro-kuperman-claudio-albarran-y-pablo-chaco
2018 XVI Photography Meeting - MONTERREY ARTS CENTER Monterrey, Mexico.
2018 AFRICAN AMERICANS - CENTER OF THE IMAGE Curated by Claudí Carreras. CDMX, Mexico.
https://centrodelaimagen.cultura.gob.mx/exposicions/2018/africamericanos.html
Other Links
https://www.c41magazine.com/pablo-chaco-vision-of-blindess-photography/
https://blogs.elespectador .com/actualidad/republica-de-colores/la-vision-la-ceguera-proyecto-pablo-chaco-jose-maria-pineiro
Total Grant Budget: $US 4,000
Total TimeLine: 16 weeks
Milestone 1 (1 week): Social media, landing page for the project, Community building
Budget: US $300
Deliverable 1: Create a social media for the project.
Deliverable 2: Create a Discord channel for the future community.
Deliverable 3: Create a landing page for the collection with the photos and content we already have.
Milestone 2 (8 weeks): Photo Shooting and Storytelling
Budget: US $2,000
Deliverable 1: 30 NEW photographs that will be minted into NFTs
Deliverable 2: Storytelling behind the 30 photographs in written form and audios.
Deliverable 3: Collection minted in a NFT MarketPlace
Deliverable 4: Content for social media to engage with the community during the process of creation.
Milestone 3 (4 weeks): Digital Photo Book Edition
Budget: US $700
Deliverable 1: 30 to 45 edited photos for the book
Deliverable 2: Weekly twitter Spaces, IG and FB Live to engage with the community.
Deliverable 3: Digital photo book
Milestone 4 (8 weeks): Community building, Marketing and distribution
Budget: US $1000
Deliverable 1: Weekly twitter Spaces, IG and FB Live to engage with the community and announce the project.
Deliverable 2: Content for social media and webpage to engage with the community
Deliverable 3: Virtual Gallery of “Vision Of Blindness”
Community Engagement:
Social Media: Community engagement will be reached through social media interactions in twitter, Discord, IG and Facebook.
We will do weekly twitter spaces, FB and IG live to present the project, talk about this experience and motivate other artists to enter the Conflux ecosystem.
Contest: We are gonna create a contest for artists so they can create an NFT for the project.
Giveaways: We will Do giveaways of the NFTs we are going to mint and we will have unlockable contents to special collectors that support the project.
Metaverse Experiences: We will do exhibitions of the work in the metaverse.
Long Term Vision:
We started this project in 2014. This project should be a way for José María to have some basic monthly incomes because he has no retirement pension.
We will continue working to raise awareness and give hope to all the people who see this project.