{"id":6179,"date":"2026-01-22T14:31:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/bibliotheek\/photographer-with-an-eye-prosthesis\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T17:06:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:06:46","slug":"photographer-with-an-eye-prosthesis","status":"publish","type":"library_pt","link":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/library\/personal-stories\/photographer-with-an-eye-prosthesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer with an eye prosthesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2026-01-22T13:26:17.830Z\">22 January 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I never had any trouble seeing with just one eye. I didn\u2019t know any better. But I was ashamed of it. For example, as a child, I wanted to serve in the military. But when I was deemed unfit for service at age 18 because of my eye, it actually worked out for the best. Sometimes I wished I could get a<em>\u201cbionic eye.\u201d<\/em>This was inspired by a (fictional) TV series from the 1970s starring \u201cThe Six Million Dollar Man.\u201d The show was about an astronaut who had been in an accident and was given supersonic body parts, including<em>\u201ca super eye.\u201d<\/em>        <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>I don&#8217;t understand what I don&#8217;t see<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The question of what seeing depth actually is crosses my mind from time to time. I\u2019ve always had a sense of depth. But what would I actually be missing? I don\u2019t understand what I don\u2019t see that people with two eyes do see. When I look at a photo, isn\u2019t that the same two-dimensional world as the one I see around me? And actually, I\u2019m not even aware that I\u2019m looking with only one eye.       <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Interest in photography<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think I was about 12 years old when I first became interested in photography. My mother took photos; she had learned about photography during her training to become an X-ray technician. My first camera was a Lubitel 2 from the USSR. It was a medium-format camera that used a roll of film for 12 exposures. It was a complicated piece of equipment. I had to hold the camera against my stomach and look down into it from above, and everything was reversed. Left was right, and vice versa. The camera didn\u2019t have a light meter, but I\u2019d learned a bit about shutter speed and aperture, so I had a general idea of how to set it up. To make a long story short: I was interested in photography, but it didn\u2019t become my professional career.          <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">One eye, a thousand images<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People sometimes ask me if it\u2019s difficult to take photos with just one eye. I really don\u2019t know if it\u2019s any harder. Maybe it just comes more naturally to me to translate the images I see in my head into a photo that lacks depth. It\u2019s actually the same thing. I can\u2019t look through the viewfinder with one eye and keep scanning my surroundings with the other eye past the camera. I am, however, aware that I have to look very closely. Sometimes I\u2019m suddenly surprised because something suddenly appears in the viewfinder\u2014and thus in my field of vision with my sighted eye. I wouldn\u2019t have noticed it with my blind eye.       <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I really enjoy being able to take photos as a volunteer for OOG in OOG. We share something special: we both have an ocular prosthesis. I\u2019ve taken over the baton from my fellow photographer (and ophthalmologist) Marina Marinkovic. You can also see her beautiful photos on the website and in the magazine. How cool is that?    <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;d like to see what else I photograph besides the work I do for OOG in OOG, please check out <a href=\"https:\/\/peter-paulfotografie.nl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my website<\/a>. &#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter-Paul Lucker recounts: &#8220;In October 1961, I underwent surgery at the Utrecht Eye Hospital for retinoblastoma in my left eye. My eye was removed. I was only 13 months old at the time. I am now 65 years old, and for as long as I can remember, I have lived in a two-dimensional world.\u201d   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5599,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_daextauttol_enable_tooltips":""},"library_cat":[113],"class_list":["post-6179","library_pt","type-library_pt","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","library_cat-personal-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_pt\/6179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_pt"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/library_pt"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"library_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_cat?post=6179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}