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The international well known artist Annalaura Di Luggo worked with 20 people from the Associazione Teatro Colosimo for Bind students and the Italian Union of Blind and Partially Sighted People (UICI) in Naples to explore, through physical and tactile approaches, the inner universe of individuals who use an alternative way to perceive the world. These interactions inspired the documentary Blind Vision, written by Annalaura Di Luggo and Nanni Zedda and directed by Nanni Zedda. The work of Annalaura Di Luggo is based on recognizing the value of the human being as "unique and unrepeatable," just as each of us perceives the world in our own unique way. Accordingly, she chooses the eye's iris as the protagonist of her photographs, as the iris is different in each individual. But Annalaura's work does not stop with the macro-photography of the iris, as the main theme of the project Occh-IO/Eye-I, which she developed in different countries and venues around the world, is the human perception that is as unique to each individual as is the iris that the artist captures with a camera she patented, which was manufactured utilizing the technical resources of ophthalmology science. The artist initiates an intimate and empathetic conversation with each of the "sitters" portrayed, in a joint exploration of their inner worlds, so that the individual images eventually incorporate and conserve traces of their protagonists' personalities, thoughts and emotions. Blind Vision documentary was presented at United Nations (New York) during World Conference for disability and at the Consulate General of Italy in New York. It won the NIAFF International Film Festival (Niagara Falls -NY) and the Fort Myers International Film Festival