Colombian photographer Gustavo Adolfo Vargas Arboleda, who was born in Manizales province, turned to art when he began going blind at the age of 17. Finding a way to help people with disabilities, Arboleda recently runs a project that he sees as an extension of the late 19th and early 20th centuries' Impressionist movement.

His Blind Project aims to prove that not being able to see is just a physical condition and should not have a negative effect on peoples' artistic endeavors. Having developed his art through graphite drawings, sculptures and photography when he was younger, he said that his photographic work reflects Impressionism in that it finds different ways to interpret life.

The Colombian photographer, who describes the process as "driving his senses all the time," added that once he finished a particular work, he would ask friends to describe the results to him.