Photography is, perhaps more than any other art form, an art that depends on sight. A photograph can be described, its composition and perspective explained, and its colors carefully evoked. But seeing it is something else entirely.

Yet someone had the idea that photography, too, could be made inclusive and accessible to everyone. And now it is. At Camera, Turin’s Photography Exhibition Center, the show The History of Photography in Your Hands makes some of the most important photographs in history accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired.

How? Through carefully crafted raised textures, accompanied by detailed audio descriptions that allow visitors to explore the images through touch and sound.

We toured the exhibition with Dajana Gioffrè, who has long worked to promote inclusion and accessibility in the arts.