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Whats your favourite thing to look at? Your dogs face? The most unbelievably Instagrammable pok bowl EVER? A sprawling autumn sunset where the sky is on fire? Now imagine that you know youre going blind: whats the last image you would want to see, the one that would stay with you? Thats the agonising question asked by a new free photography show, Blink, at Oxo Tower, supporting trachoma charity Sightsavers.

Trachoma is a condition that affects nearly 142 million people across the world, many of them children. Its painful, slow, and untreated leads to permanent, total blindness. But its also curable and preventable. Sightsavers is hoping to end the disease for good by 2025.

To highlight the plight of global trachoma sufferers, some world-famous photographers including fashion don Nick Knight have contributed to the show, which runs October 9-13. Each of them has been asked to choose an image of theirsthat they would want to be the last thing they ever saw. But theres a twist. Trachoma is characterised by compulsive blinking, and in Blink created by MET Studio as the viewers stand in front of the images, their normal, natural blinking will be captured by movement technology and gradually make the images degrade and fade until they completely disappear. Its literally blink and youll miss it. So dont miss it.

Blink is at Oxo Gallery, Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse St, SE1 9PH. Tube: London Bridge. Oct 9-13. Free. Find out more here.

Looking for more photography in London? Find out why we gave Tim Walkers V&A show five stars.

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