2025 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize

As far as the eye can see

Julie Purdie

As far as the eye can see, 2025 archival inkjet print on cotton rag, from an Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) B-scan 100 x 100 cm

This enlarged OCT scan of a retina with geographic atrophy reimagines vision loss as a mountainous landscape. From a distance, sighted viewers may perceive abstract terrain, but for those with central vision loss, the image dissolves into a grey void. This work invites reflection on perception, absence, and the unseen worlds shaped by vision loss.