The Slovenian photographer was born in a small town near Venice in 1946 and was a wild young thing immersed in books and devices. Suffering two separate accidents in childhood, Bavcar slowly lost his sight. He stole away from our shared visual world, taking care to collect icons and senses along the way. When the lights did finally go out, the artist’s mind was full. With a team of assistants, Bavcar now makes photographs. “I measure the distance with my hands and the rest is done by my internal desire for images,” he explains in the notes accompanying his online exhibition, The Mirror of Dreams, hosted at ZoneZero. In a way, Bavcar becomes the thinking camera.

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