{"id":5375,"date":"2012-10-09T20:35:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T00:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2016-04-08T20:41:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T00:41:23","slug":"seeing-through-a-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/seeing-through-a-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Through A Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They say seeing is believing, but for Milton Young, believing in himself and his photographs has nothing to do with sight. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Young, 60, is blind. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI have these little flashes of images,\u201d said Young, who is currently majoring in computer engineering at Miami Dade College. \u201cAs you lose your sight you start to sense where things are going to be around you. The interesting thing is that I use that to do my photography. I intuitively start to feel that there\u2019s something interesting that I have to know about; I get hungry for that image.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Young is feeding his hunger these days by participating in a pilot program at the Kendall Campus created by associate professor of photography Tony Chirinos that allows blind and visually impaired students to participate in a photography course with students without visual impairments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chirinos said his goal is to have everyone in class learn from the experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFrom an artistic point [Milton has] taught us you don\u2019t need to have sight to be a great photographer,\u201d said 21-year-old Jeremy Sabater, Milton\u2019s classmate and main aide in the course. \u201cHe\u2019s taught us photography isn\u2019t only about what you see but what you feel and what you sense around you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Young, who worked at Royal Caribbean Cruise lines as an operations analyst until he was 53, wasn\u2019t born blind; he lost the ability to fully see seven years ago. His vision began to deteriorate as a result of an advanced open-angle glaucoma. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His right eye went quickly, even with multiple surgeries to try to prevent it. Vision in his left eye soon followed. Young has retained about 1% vision in his right eye, considerably well below the 20% to be considered legally blind. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But that has not been a deterrent for Young. He is able to photograph unassisted. His classmates help him with elements of processing and printing including: mixing the chemicals, (though he agitates the film himself) moving film to the dryer, and focusing and exposing prints properly. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt creates an interesting competition between the visual student and Milton,\u201d Chirinos said. \u00a0\u201cIt makes them think, if he\u2019s making all these excellent images and he can\u2019t see then we really need to step it up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Young is excited about where photography may take him. He said he isn\u2019t ready to change his major, just yet, but he feels like he\u2019s experiencing a new found freedom with his camera. Young plans to take photography again next semester with Chirinos. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think Milton is a good fit for this pilot course.\u201d said Elizabeth Smith, Director of Access at Kendall Campus, a program that assists students with disabilities, and the group that nominated Milton for the project. \u00a0\u201cThe staff here at access talked to a lot of students that have visual disabilities. We determined he\u2019d be a great candidate, and so far he\u2019s proving it.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Young also understands that he\u2019s becoming a role model for Access students at the College. He wants everyone to know that no matter whatever the obstacle they can get through it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe\u2019s no different than the rest of us. His work has been an inspiration to the rest of us that we can go farther than what we thought was possible,\u201d Sabater said. \u201cHe may be limited [but ] he has been able to exceed all expectations. I\u2019m so proud of him and impressed by his work. \u00a0He can do whatever he puts his mind to with or without vision.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say seeing is believing, but for Milton Young, believing in himself and his photographs has nothing to do with sight. Young, 60, is blind. \u201cI have these little flashes of images,\u201d said Young, who is currently majoring in computer engineering at Miami Dade College. \u201cAs you lose your sight you start to sense where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":5376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Seeing Through A Lens - The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/seeing-through-a-lens\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seeing Through A Lens - The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"They say seeing is believing, but for Milton Young, believing in himself and his photographs has nothing to do with sight. 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