A Journey in Sight

Eight out of ten blind people live in the developing world, and the vast majority of this blindness is preventable. These facts constitute A Journey in Sight, a project by photographer Jarret Schecter who was astounded by the conditions he witnessed in Burkina Faso, one of the world's poorest countries. Here Schecter illuminates the link between poverty and blindness—40 million people suffer from preventable blindness that arises from Vitamin A deficiency, unsanitary conditions, minimal hea...