The Man Who Sees With His Fingers

Eşref Armağan is a Turkish painter who has been blind since birth. He has never been able to see. But: His paintings are amazingly realistic, incorporating colour, and great detail. And the most fascinating ability: He uses perspectives! Even a lot of seeing people are not able to do. Prof. Kennedy from Toronto University, who works since 35 years with blind people, cried as he saw this. Harvard neurologist Alvaro Pascual-Leone scanned Eşrefs brain in an MRI. He saw a little sensation. Pascual-Leone: “You can say Eşref sees with his fingers”. Filmmaker Savaş Ceviz looked over the shoulder of the fascinating blind painter while he is working on his paintings and drawings in his studio. Eşref shows his techniques and secrets. He tells about why he kidnapped his wife, how it came that a painting of him is hanging in the MOMA and why he has got a letter from the white house, from Bill Clinton. Eşref has had exhibits in many cities in Turkey as well as in New York, Chicago, Shanghai, Assisi, Italy and the Czech Republic.