Hi Marilyn,
You can contact me at charlesdias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm working in the website of the project and it'll be working next week with full info about this project.
Thanks very much for you nice PS ... I think this project is a good way of joining culture, social responsability and professional training to some children with low resources, financial and cultural. Basically this is a one year project that starts with 50 children and finishes with 10 "graduated" junior photographers. Where going to identify the more talented ones to photography along the year and give then information, training and orientation ... of course the other 40 ones will gain a lot of info and also orientation to other art branchs that are better to then (we're looking for other ONGs that works with theather, literature, dance and mu
sic with
poor communities to work with us in cooperation). The 10 "graduated"junior photographer will have a full portfolio, will be presented to a lot of photographers and will keep the equipment you're donating in order to make some money with photography in their own communities ... it's poor communities but they have weddings, birthdays, presentations and portraits as any other communities and can pay just a little but it's already a possible source of income to that children and their families, as long as a way of keep then working their photographic knowledge and even finding another opportunities just as selling photos to newspaper and stock photo agencies showing the day-by-day of their communities by their own eyes. Well, I'll explaing all this better in the website.
As I said before, this is a little project but I think it's better to help a little than help none at all. As there's a nice plus in this project, it's what I call the "dissemination effe
ct"
because all this 50 children will learn better the importance of the photography as a key to cultural develpment and will teach it to their parents, relatives and friends.
Yours,
Charles
Marilyn <marilyn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Marilyn <marilyn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Charles,May I have your e-mail address so I can get in touch with you, please.MarilynP.S. The work your students have done is quite remarkable.
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________________________________________________________________----- Original Message -----From: Charles DiasSent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:15 PMSubject: Camera donati on for social projectHi,
In february I'm going to lead a photo social project here in Brazil joining poor children (10yo to 16yo) and amateur photographers. We're contacting some ONGs that already works with poor children in order to get some nice results still in the first semester of 2006.
As soon as it's a ONG type project, we're going to run the project cheap and based on donations. We have already picked some money and bought some bulk BW film (10 bulk rolls of Fortepan ISO 100 - cheap but nice for our proposal), a photo magazine will send us some kits for BW film development and a pro lab in São Paulo city will support this project printing the photos in a Fuji Frontier minilab (20 rolls of 36 exp. per month). It's not very much but enouth to start the project.
The problem is that we have not enouth 35mm SLR cameras !!! We need at least 15 cameras but have just 3 ones, a Canon AE1+ 50mm, a Praktica MTL3+50mm and a Ze nit 12XP+50mm ... we still need 12 cameras.
Well, if you have some old but working 35mm SLR cameras lost in your closed and would like to support this project sending it to us by USPS mail, I would thanks very much. Any old Zenit E, Minolta, Nikon, Canon, Fujica or even some 35mm autofocus with manual exposure would fit.
Contacts in pvt, please, for not disturbing the list.
Thanks,
Charles Dias
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Charles
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