10 December 2011 Help Portrait day
During my stay in Orlando for Photoshop World I caught up with Jeremy Cowart.
Jeremy is a great photographer from the US which is well known for his work for major stars, but what is maybe his greatest achievement is the Help portrait project. In this project it’s not about us the Photographers and the fame and fortune… no it’s about giving back, giving to people that have no means of themselves, people that maybe have never been photographed before, or in other words making people happy and changing their lives with out gift of photography.
There has been previous Help Portrait days and every year it grows, and there are some people already active in the Netherlands but what about joining forces and using every option possible to make it a huge succes this year. We are willing to take up part of the organisation and use our channels to get sponsors, attention and by this reaching more people, but also make sure that all the photographers joining this year will have a group to fall back on in case of questions or if there are any problems.
In essence it’s of course the idea to make Help Portrait a succes, for this we need people who are willing to participate.
We are looking for :
Locations in several cities in the Netherlands
Photographers that are willing to spend one day of their year to spread joy and love to people that need it
MUAs that can transform our “models” into something they never dreamed of being possible
Sponsors that are willing to supply the locations with gear and printers
And of course media attention
If you are already active in the help portrait program please contact me and join forces, if you want to participate mail me at [email protected] and respond in this post. In the coming days I will do a small interview with Jeremy about Help Portrait to give a bit more attention to the program on my blog. We will also start contacting our sponsors and of course the people we know to join up.
Let’s make Help Portrait 2011 one of the best for the people in need.
You can visit www.help-portret.nl for more info and signing up.
Below is the video for help portrait 2010
Hoi Frank,
Het is een fantastisch initiatief waar ik graag deel van wil uitmaken. Op mijn flickr account staan nog geen portret foto’s, maar deze zal ik gauw toevoegen.
groet, Shyam
Hoi Frank,
Ook ik zou graag deel uitmaken van dit geweldige initiatief!
Groet,
Dennis
Count me in…
Hoi Frank,
Dit is een geweldig initiatief, waar wij graag aan mee willen werken.
Grtz René en Yvonne
Mooi initiatief, ik doe mee!
Mooi initiatief inderdaad! Count me in too!
Schitterend initiatief. Ik doe mee
Schrijf aub in via https://frankdoorhof.com/helpportrait, de nieuwe site komt eraan.
This is so beautiful! I
would love to join but I don’t know if I could be up for the challenge.
Besides, I’m too shy to ask other people to do me a favor.
Always do, the people organizing this are doing it from their hearts and without a doubt are great people to work with, so just do it, you’re gonna love it.
Hi! Can I start something in Canada? I am a reasonably good photographer and have got a T 7000. I can manage a printer if we can work out the details.
YES of course, you can do it anywhere.