Newsletter | Blind's Week: Photo institutions facing the crisis, Francesca Todde, Tseng Kwong Chi

See, read and understand the language of photographersWhen you have to close doors, you have to open new ones. This week, Blind offers you a little escape.

At the first signs of the Covid-19 outbreak, many photography museums and galleries around the world, especially in Europe and the United States, closed their doors to the public. This difficult situation has forced these institutions to reinvent themselves in order to survive.

An unusual photographic project recorded over an extensive period of time, A Sensitive Education by Francesca Todde is an immersion in the daily life of a bird educator named Tristan. Released in January by Milan publisher Départ Pour l'Image, this deeply limited edition is both a wonderful discovery and a very beautiful photo book.

In 1979 artist, social diarist, and cultural provocateur Tseng Kwong Chi embarked on East Meets West, an exploration of truth, fiction, and identity using photography and performance art decades before the advent of the selfie.

In the third part of the journal she is holding regularly during the COVID-19 crisis with one image, one text and one song, New York based photographer Gaia Squarci video talks with a friend working in a hospital near Milan, her hometown.

In this fourth part, Gaia Squarci tells the story of her roommate's move and the loneliness she suddenly has to face. 

Blind's goal is to support photographic creation and invites all photographers to submit their portfolios. Send them to us at the following address: [email protected]