Sites Unseen: What’s Revealed by Traveling With the Blind
5/24/202627 min
Andy Isaacson is a writer and photographer. His work for The Times has taken him to every corner of the world, and he has transmitted what he’s experienced through his images.
But recently, Isaacson took a trip unlike any he’d taken before. Not because of where he traveled, but because of how he traveled.
Paired with a set of unlikely travel companions, he put down his camera and experienced the word through touch, smell and sound.
On today’s episode of “The Sunday Daily,” Isaacson talks with Host Michael Barbaro about a trip that forever changed the way he travels.
On today's episode:
Andy Isaacson, a contributing writer and photographer for The New York Times.
Background Reading
Sites Unseen: What Travel Is Like for Those Who Can’t See
Photo credit: Andy Isaacson
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First 90 secondsWesley Morris0:00
I'm Wesley Morris. I'm a critic for The New York Times, and I'm the host of a podcast called Cannonball. We're gonna talk about that song you can't get out of your head, that TV show you watched and can't stop thinking about, and the movie that you saw when you were a kid that made you who you are, whether you like it or not. I was so embarrassed the whole time because it's a bad film. Yeah. And I still love it. [laughs] You can find Cannonball on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts.
Michael Barbaro· Host0:30
[upbeat music] From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily on Sunday. Travel is an inescapably visual experience. [gentle music] The entire vocabulary we attach to travel confirms that. We go sightseeing. We ask for rooms with a view. We memorialize our trip, or we brag about it, by posting photographs on social media. But my colleague, Andy Isaacson, an accomplished photographer and writer, recently took a trip with a group of blind travelers that directly challenged the idea that we best understand the world through our eyes. Today, Andy talks to us about that trip and about the deeper layers of experience that are revealed by travelers