Whom have you tried to help with your photography?

[denpapp]

Last couple of years have provided photos and prints for a charity event to benefit the local Leukemia and Lymphoma society and a partciular friend, who had fallen illl with Leukemia

 

[johne]

I have an article in the current issue of the Kentucky Humanities Magazine on the impact of mural art on Paducah and its environs. A noted impressionist painter [John Fulton Folinsbee of the New Hope School] was commissioned to paint murals on the court room walls in the New federal building in 1938. Locals objected. In the 1960s a local group painted their version of the local history on the Post Office walls. Currently, there is a massive mural project on the flood walls in the city that covers three city blocks. Interesting conflict between perceived use of art as a pruveyor of local history to art as art. Quite a challenge to me to capture the three perspectives.
John E.L.Robertson

 

[Pablito]

I have an article in the current issue of the Kentucky Humanities Magazine on the impact of mural art on Paducah and its environs. A noted impressionist painter [John Fulton Folinsbee of the New Hope School] was commissioned to paint murals on the court room walls in the New federal building in 1938. Locals objected. In the 1960s a local group painted their version of the local history on the Post Office walls. Currently, there is a massive mural project on the flood walls in the city that covers three city blocks. Interesting conflict between perceived use of art as a pruveyor of local history to art as art. Quite a challenge to me to capture the three perspectives.
John E.L.Robertson

Very interesting and complex situation no doubt.

 

[johne]

Pablito,
Appreciate your comment. Thanks.
John

 

[Nescio]

Some 10 years ago I stayed 2 months in Burma with my girlfriend and back in Spain we did some sort of a report on the country's situation with 3 slide projectors and a 1 hour conference for the local Zapatista movement support group (one of the most important in Europe, for that matter).
Well..., lots of congrats on the images, but nobody was actually really interested. Maybe the pictures were faeces and the conference a bore, but at least we tried and at the time I still remembered my journalist days, so I secretly put the blame on them.
Since then I only work my backyard, photografically speaking, doing the ocasional CD-cover that never gets published, but one of the best things I did lately was not making a photo but buying a film compact for a 85 year old lady in my neighborhood who claims to be a poet and a photographer. She definitely is not that but a poem and a constantly changing photograph by herself. And perhaps she wouldn't be half herself without that little P&S.

 

[johne]

Bravo Nescio!
John

 

[Nescio]

Thanks John, but now I feel I was presuming on something that is no better than giving a glass of water to the thirsty. Or is this just doubling false modesty?

 

[Pablito]

Pablito,
Appreciate your comment. Thanks.
John

Worked with similar situation a number of tiemes, very familiar with the issues.

 

[Pablito]

@Nescio - "Nos mean y nos dicen que llueve"

....but that is the nature of life...

😉

 

[johne]

Nescio,
A good deed done is worth a hundred contemplated. Just enjoy the moment.
John

Often it is so easy to do a good deed that, upon reflection, we seem to feel guilty. Don't.

 

[bo_lorentzen]

Shot production stills for indie production at no charge.? (free beer don't count)

Invested in P&S for a couple of 3 world shooters I email with. have seen those little cameras being published in UN articles so something good have come of it.

Aside from that, I gave at the office and am a real grump about it. 😀


Bo

www.bophoto.typepad.com

 

[nikon_sam]

For the past 10 or 11 years I've been the unofficial official photographer at our church..I've done just about every type of event a church can have, I enjoy when we have special guest speakers or when we work with other organizations that do events outside of the church grounds...most people that know me there know me as the church photographer...
Also both our kids were in Marching Band and Jazz Band (High School)...we went to just about all their performances and I shot all I went to...for the last six years the photos I took for the Marching Band were the ones they used in their yearbook spread...at the end of the year they would have a band banquet and we would display photos of the kids taken throughout the year...after the banquet we would let the kids take their favorite photo...
One of the other parents would make a DVD of the different competitions we attended and put those together along with some photos...we gave a copy to the Senior Class and the others would buy theirs...the money raised would go back to the band...

 

[ssmc]

Shot production stills for a senior film project. I did get credited (no $ or even beer though), but I was happy to have the experience of shooting people in a "documentary"-type setting, which was totally new to me... but unfortunately that's about it

Scott

 

[tedwhite]

Started the photography programs at Blackburn and Cochise Colleges. Taught in both for a time, but that doesn't count as I was paid. However, getting a photography program through a sometimes hostile, sometimes indifferent curriculum committee was a serious PITA. But perseverance furthers. I loved turning students on to black and white photography, then later on turning it all over to younger and very talented instructors.

 

[mike-s]

I photograph fundraising events and other things for the Guide Dogs for The Blind Association, Northern Ireland division.

 

[Brian Levy]

Never did anything for a not-for-profit. I have taught beginner and intermediate photogrpahy courses for adult ed and like to think I made a positive contribution to the hobby in some way.