As a child, Max Hodak learned to develop film in a darkroom with his late grandfather who was almost blind.
Hodak’s grandfather had retinitis pigmentosa, a congenital disease that affects one out of every 5,000 people — more than 2 million worldwide. Most people with the condition are born with their sight intact. Over time they lose peripheral vision first, then central…

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