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This photograph of a young man born without eyes is from Stefano De Luigi’s<\/a> new book “Blanco<\/a>”. Photographer Stefano De Luigi said that this moment was one of the most difficult in his five-year project. “When you are confronted with blind people there is always the question-shall he\/she become sighted some day? In this case the answer was straight and standing in front of me, and this lack of hope was very hard.”<\/p> Aiming to raise awareness of the daily battle blind people face, De Luigi started began his project in 2003. With the support of “Vision 2020<\/a>: The Right to Sight”, an initiative spearheaded by the World Health Organization and a broad coalition of international, non-governmental and private organizations seeking to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020, he photographed blind people in 14 countries – Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Congo, Laos, Liberia, Lithuania, Nigeria, Peru, Rwanda, Thailand, Uganda and Vietnam.<\/p> A boy without eyes—birth defect<\/a> from exposure to Agent Orange<\/a>—seen at the Nguyen Dinh Chieu school in Hanoi, Vietnam.<\/strong><\/p> This photograph of a young man born without eyes is from Stefano De Luigi’s new book “Blanco”. Photographer Stefano De Luigi said that this moment was one of the most difficult in his five-year project. “When you are confronted with … Continue reading <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"