Practitioner stories
Optometrists, dispensing opticians and eye care professionals from across optics share their stories
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Author Ben Shaberman talks to OT about how families affected by blindness helped to inspire his new novel, Retina Boy
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Sabeena Kaushali Weyhenage (pictured) was practising medicine when she lost her sight over the course of a year. She tells OT about her new role as an eye clinic liaison officer at the Royal Eye Unit at Kingston Hospital
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Author James Laird tells OT about living with retinitis pigmentosa and writing to survive in China
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Poet Dave Steele tells OT how his poetry gives people words to describe living with sight loss when they can’t find their own
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Australian furniture and lighting designer, Duncan Meerding (pictured), describes how his award-winning creations are informed by the way that he sees
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Colour blind paint mixer, Ruksar Ajmal, tells OT how a paint recycling company gave him a second chance after time in prison
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The 47-year-old Buckinghamshire event manager spent months in a darkened room after a speck of mud flew into her eye while gardening
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“When I removed the patch and looked at the eye in the mirror, my heart sank. I felt like something from the exorcist was looking back at me”
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City, University of London’s Professor Christopher Tyler talks with OT about his research suggesting Leonardo da Vinci had an eye misalignment