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BLIND faith: AIDS has dimmed his eyesight, but photographer John Dugdale keeps working. His art informs a rich new book
The year 1993 was bad for John Dugdale. That was the year Dugdale, already a successful commercial photographer, had an AIDS-related stroke that paralyzed him from the neck down and destroyed most of his eyesight. After seven months in the hospital, Dugdale taught himself to walk again and figured out how to use his changed sight to make art. "I had lots of work to do," he says of his unexpected recovery. "I didn't want to leave my family. I must have felt deep down that I hadn't achieved what is most important in my life."
Dugdale's...