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Framing Perceptions: Stories of empowered lives and the impact of exclusion

Sightsavers is a charity that changes lives for the long term, working in more than 30 countries to eliminate avoidable blindness and support people with visual impairments to live independently.

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Via Creative Boom submission. All images courtesy of the artist and the gallery

Via Creative Boom submission. All images courtesy of the artist and the gallery

This beautiful photography exhibition at London's Oxo Gallery entitled Framing Perceptions, features portraits by Guardian newspaper photographer Graeme Robertson, who travelled with the international organisation to visit social inclusion projects in Uganda, East Africa and Rajasthan North India, to meet people whose lives have been affected by disability.

It's all part of a wider campaign called Put Us in the Picture, which aims to bring to life the stories of people with disabilities living in developing countries, some are stories of exclusion and some are of empowerment.

Man wearing a white shirt and yellow turban adjusting his headwear in a shop with dried goods and colourful packaging on shelves behind him
A shopkeeper stands in a small concrete structure filled with coloured goods and packets, surrounded by customers and onlookers in Rajasthan, India
A man in a white t-shirt and purple scarf sits on a colourful patterned bed in a blue-walled room with an old television mounted on the wall
A man and woman walk together along a rural path lined with trees and a fence, in a landscape from one of Sightsavers' social inclusion projects
Five students in blue and white uniforms sit together against a grey wall beneath a green textile and hanging clothes in what appears to be a classroom or dormitory space
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