Canon and RNIB launch World Unseen photography exhibition

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World Unseen was a photography exhibition curated by Canon Europe to enable blind and partially sighted people to experience photography in a new, accessible and immersive way.

The exhibition, organised in partnership with the Royal National Institute of Blind People, would take place at Somerset House, London, on April 5-7.

Photographs taken by world-renowned photographers would be accompanied by elevated prints, audio descriptions, soundscapes and braille for a tactile experience to help visitors connect with the powerful images.

Other images would be obscured in different ways to convey to sighted people the different types of visual impairment, from glaucoma to diabetic retinopathy.