It wasn't until after Pete Eckert went blind that he really started to see things. When the 48 year old former carpenter went blind from Retinitis Pigmentosa six years ago, he did the first thing he wasn't supposed to be able to do. He became a photographer. Eckert was 28 when he was deemed legally blind; he spent the next decade earning several degrees, including one each in sculpture and ceramics at the Art Institute of Boston, and one in design and industry from San Francisco State. He also became a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Eckert says, he paints with light and navigates through touch while listening to sounds. "Imagination fills in the details," he says.
