On Mandela Day the 18th of July, Stop Hunger Now Southern Africa hosted a food packaging event where 67 companies sponsored 67 volunteers to package meals in 67 minute long shifts.
As part of their 4PBO (Public Benefit Organisations) program, Ubuntu Help Portrait got together a number of volunteer photographers to assist in documenting the events of the day. The energy was intoxicating and the other photographers were kind enough to assist this first time speedlight (not mine) user get a handle of using an external flash.
These are some of the images and moment I captured:
More photo's from this event can be found on flickr through this link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubuntuhelpportrait/sets/72157634646969535/
My first encounter with Ubuntu Help Portrait was last year through the Johannesburg Photowalkers group but I only got to understand what they are really about when I attended their launch this year. Basically the idea is to take a portrait of someone who needs it (school kids who don't have their photos taken, elderly etc), print it and give it back to them. Here's a video that best describes what they do.
The best part of this is that the focus is purely on the person on the other side of the lens and not the photographer meaning that the images are not watermarked nor shared anywhere but go straight to the person whom they belong to.
No comments:
Post a Comment