Sometimes we think that helping people can only happen through traveling the world and finding a remote tribe somewhere in the wilds of Africa or Papua New Guinea, or through doing something exotic that will interest people.
Not exactly.
Let me introduce you to an organization called Help Portrait.
Help Portrait was founded by photographer Jeremy Cowart, to be a community of photographers coming together across the world to give their photography skills back to their local community. Their basic mission is to find people in need and take their picture, or in other words people who’ve never had professional portraits done, because they can’t afford it. They do this through hosting local events where everything gets done in one place: set up, make up, hair, posing, photographing and printing.
The stuff you hear is pretty amazing like one woman who said “last time we had our picture taken was 24 years ago at our wedding”…..it’s awesome to be able to hand them that picture you just took, and see the joy they get from it. – Seth Haley
Coming soon: More about local and community events by Help Portrait.