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The body sees, hears, smells, feels and tastes. Well, if we remove the sense of sight from this experience, will the experience be incomplete? This study tries to understand and explain how visually impaired individuals relate to urban space and what the determinants of this relationship are. Photographs were used as a tool to explain this relationship. The late blind participant used the photograph as an expression of his/her relationship with the environment. At the same time, he/she described how he/she revealed the other dimensions and codes of the space and how he/she filled the spaces in the city through photography. In order to explain this with photographs, the late blind participants received photography training for 1 month before the study. İzmir Kemeraltı Bazaar was chosen as an urban context where the study is conducted and the daily life of bazaar was experienced. 7 late blind participants, who discovered the spaces on foot, tried to explain their tactical production in the urban space and their interaction with the space with their photographs. The late blind documented all the representations, including the events during the walk tour, frame by frame. At the same time, they narrated what tactical and creative elements were and in what situations they occurred during the walk through verbal descriptions. In the photographs taken by the late blinds, it is seen concretely how a visually impaired person separates from the place and society. At the end of this article, the question "How can a blind person take a picture?" has been moved away and the answer of the question “Why would a blind person want to take pictures?” has been found.

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