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Four members of the photography group stood looking at framed images and smiling to camera

Photography Group Exhibition

Below are the images from our "Through Our Eyes: 160 Years of Vision and Resilience" photography exhibition, celebrating 160 years of Sight Life (formerly Cardiff Institute for the Blind) which is running in Cardiff Bay throughout November & December 2025 and into January 2026.

All the photographs have been taken by people who have a vision impairment and are members of our Photography Group.

Please click on each of the images from the to find out more about the photographer and other information, such as how you can acquire your own print of the image.

If you wish to visit the exhibition, you can find all the details here.

To find out more about the Photography Group, please scroll down.

Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A red macro image with black stripes across the image. There is a glass sphere sitting on a cross stand which has the stripes reflecting and two light dots which look like alien eyes.

Alien
Senedd Photography Exhibition Image: A black and white portrait shot taken from above of two young women walking down a rainy street. One carries an umbrella and another has a coat over her head. Both are wearing open toed, strappy sandles. There is strong reflection of them in the puddles.

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Image of Sight Life's 2026 Calendars on a plain background

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A close up image of a grey and brown bird on the arm of a bird feeder. It's right eye is looking, beadily, to camera. The background is out-of-focus green bushes, making the bird stand out.

Beady Eye
A creatively lit green macro image of a water droplet that looks like an apple with water droplets within it and a reflection underneath.

Big Apple
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A summers day landscape image on Blenheim Palace Lake. There's a path running across the foreground with a big tree on the left of the frame, leading down to the lake. There's a small boathouse to the left of tree, on the lakeside, in the middle distance and there's lots of trees and woodland lining both sides of the lake as it disappears into the distance.

Blenheim Palace Lake
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: This is a close-up action shot of a heron with a fish in its beak that it has just plucked from the water.

Breakfast
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A view of a metal bridge over the River Wye taken from close to the bridge entry with the bridge spanning away into the distance. Lots of long grass in the foreground and woodland on the far side.

Bridge Over The River Wye
Senedd Photography Exhibition Image: A night-scape showing a tree-lined boulevard. All the trees are lit up with thousands of small twinkly lights all wrapped around their bare branches.

Christmas In The Park
Senedd Photography Exhibition Image: A very close up image of the stamen of a yellow courgette flower with lots of water droplets on the petals.

Courgette Tears
Senedd Photography Exhibition Image: A striking architectural portait image of Cynghordy Viaduct.

Cynghordy Viaduct, near Llandovery
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A silhouetted sea-scape image with the focus on a murmuration of birds flying across Cardiff bay, silhouetted against the blue, pink and soft purple dawn sky. St David's hotel stands on the far left and water fills the foreground.

Dawn Murmuration
Senedd Photography Exhibition Image: A portrait image of a sunrise with approximately 50 silhouetted people in the shallow waters swimming and chatting together.

Dawn Swim
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A striking image looking along the length of Penarth Pier at dusk. The sky is inky blue and meets a deep blue sea. There are a string of festoon lights running along the length of the pier and reflecting along the wet floor of the pier.

Days End Pier
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: This is an extreme close up of an white owl's face. The frame is filled with the white feathers. The only other detail is the two large orange and black eyes and black beak.

Don’t!
Senedd Photography Exhibition Image: A macro image of a down feather lying on its side with creative blue, red and purple lighting.

Down Feather
A black & white portrait image of a statue at Cardiff's National Museum which depicts a boy in military uniform drumming.

Drummer Boy
Senedd Photography Exhibition Image: A portrait black and white image of a stylish man looking off camera on the left of the image. He's standing in front of a wall which is filled with a huge image of a man in a suit striding and carrying paperwork. He looks like a giant in comparison to the man stood in front of the wall.

Fashion
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A modern cityscape image of a street lit at night. The photographer has maximised a dynamic use of symmetry and converging parallels as the street fades away into the centre of the image.

Florianka Strasse, Krakow
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A stricking close up image of a wild fox looking directly to camera.

Fox
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A landscape image looking along a sandy beach with footprints in the sand and the water lapping the shore from the left with blue skies above. On the horizon in on the far right of the image there's a young lady, running onto the beach wearing a red jacket.

Girl On The Beach
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: This is a bright and symmetrical portrait image of a daisy. The yellow centre of the flower fills a large portion of the image with the white petals filling the rest of the frame and bleeding off the image.

Give Me Your Answer Do
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A macro image of a half-opened pink rose, filling the frame. Green rose buds are visible either side of the rose, out of focus in the background.

Grace and Beauty
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: a grainy image of a man with long hair and long beard playing a yellow guitar. He's wearing a leather jacket, check shirt and glasses.

Guitarist
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A striking image of two field mice balancing on the two of 3 ears of corn. The background is thrown out of focus making them stand out.

Harvest Mouse
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A cityscape of some grafitti which weaves around the side of a building and across a garage door. The grafitti artwork depicts a man's hand in tone of blue, coming in from the right and gently taking hold of a lady's hand, which is in tones of brown.

Hungarian Hands
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A creative macro shot of a water droplet jumping out of the water. The droplet has taken a human-type form to look like a mermaid.

Mermaid
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A portrait image of a man stood in front of a red and white brick wall which fills the background. The man is wearing a shirt, tie and long black overcoat with a trilby hat. His arms are folder and he's turning his head to look, seriously, off to the left of image. he looks like a Secret Service agent.

Moded Secret Service
Senedd Photography Exhibition Image: A man sat on the pavement in front of a grey brick wall wearing a dirty black coat and blue hoody. His head is bowed and his hands are on his head. He's got a red sleeping bag across his lap.

No Home, No Christmas
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A moody black and white architectural image of the Norwegian Church Arts Centre in Cardiff Bay. The clouds in the background are dark and imposing.

Norwegian Church
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A close-up image of a vibrant orange poppy in the sunlight with the focus on its black stamen and the petals. The green background is out of focus.

Orange Poppy
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A strikng multi-coloured abstract macro image with curves fanning out like a peacock's tail, on a black background.

Paper Fan
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A wintry landscape image at sunset in portrait format. It shows a river which fills the foreground and a fields behind it, going away into the distance. The sides of the image are filled with bare trees. There's mist in the background and the clouds are yellow and pink, in front of a fading blue sky.

Play Misty For Me
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: An imposing architectural image of a power station focussing on the symmetry and making use of converging parallels as the image looks up to the tall building.

Power To The People
Senedd Photography Exhibition Image: a striking high-contrast landscape image of a cruise ship docked alongside a norweigian village. There are mountains in the background and a moody, cloudy sky. The ship is bright white and it reflects beautifully on the tranquil waters below.

Reflecting on a Norwegian Ford
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A stricking head and shoulders image of a tiger looking calmly straight to camera with strong eye contact.

Shere Khan
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A close-up image of a black and white collie dog looking slightly upwards and 'smiling' towards the camera. The dog looks to be on a boat.

Smiler
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A striking, close-up image of a pink flamingo on the water, swimming towards the camera and 'sprucing up' by flapping its feathers. There are water droplets all over as it splashes.

Sprucing Up
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: An architectural image of the decorative artwork of the interior of St Teilo's Church at St Fagans which is red, white and green.

St Teilo’s Church, St Fagans
Senedd Photography Exhibition Image: A close up head and shoulders shot of a stag looking towards camera.

Stag
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A creative macro image of a water droplet on a blade of grass. The background is deep blue with a white star burst coming in from bottom left. This is reflected and clearly visible in the water droplet.

Star Reflection
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A wintry landscape image at sunset in portrait format. It shows 3 bare trees alongside a river which fills the foreground. There's a field with mist in the background. The water reflects the trees silhouette and the pale pink colours of the sky.

Tales From The Riverbank
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A graphic side profile image of an eagle sat on a stick nest with fields and trees in the background.

Telyn, Cors Dyfi Nature Reserve
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A spring shot of the Temple of Peace in the gardens behind Cardiff's City Hall. There is lots of pink blossom on the trees in the foreground and background. There are lots of colourful flowers around the base of the Temple and the sky is clear and blue.

Temple of Peace
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: A black and white image of a tornado aircraft taken from the front end, looking down its nose.

Tornado
Senedd Photography Exhibition image: An arched Victorian bridge over a wide river with a smaller red bridge underneath.

When The Boat Comes In

About our Photography Group

Sight Life’s photography group was formed in 2017 when Jeff, previously a professional photographer, now a volunteer at Sight Life, was asked by several people with visual impairments, to help them take better photographs. It simply grew from there with more and more talent and interest evolving.

The group now includes a wide range of members, including experienced photographers and ambitious amateurs. They all share a love of photography and some form of sight loss.

Their work proves that, whether it’s cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration or another eye disease, sight loss is no bar to pursuing a passion for pictures. Their ability to capture architecture, portraits, street scenes, wildlife and stunning indoor images using everyday items shows that nothing is beyond their grasp.

And that reflects the wider ethos of this 160-year-old charity. Sight Life steps in when medicine can do no more. Through a mix of practical help, peer group support, clubs and activities, the charity enables people (including family and friends) to see that a diagnosis of sight loss is not the end of the world.

And, as well as challenging the idea that photographers need 20/20 vision, these images help promote Sight Life’s work and show that there is life after sight loss.

Get Involved

The members are a close-knit community, meeting regularly to photograph together and share their work in a safe environment whilst having a lot of fun along the way. New members with visual impairments are always welcome, irrespective of their ability levels or type of camera they use.

They meet every other Thursday morning at Sight Life's Resource Centre on Womanby Street in Cardiff.

There is always lots going on with various trips, competitions and exhibition planning!

If you would like to find out more about how you could join the group, please click the button to send us an email.

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