Charity Book Project

Im subscribed to ProPhotoResource.com's newsletter and in one of this months articles Paul Gero wrote about a Charity Book project he did with the benefactor being CHOC Foundation for Children, a Orange County, CA charity. He tells about how inspiring it was do this and what a revelation it brought about.

Here is an extract from the article:
"Australian portrait photographer Tero Sade shared the project at a seminar I attended last summer and it inspired us to try it here Tero has been doing this project for nearly a decade in Australia and it is wildly successful. Not only did I get the idea for the book from the seminar, but our entire portrait business changed, as a result, too.

Our original goal was to do 100 sessions and raise $10,000 for CHOC with a session fee of $100 per child going directly to the charity (we had our clients write the check to CHOC so there were no issues about where the funds were going). Each child would be featured in the book, one per page with their photo and first name printed.

To date we have $11,300 to date for the charity and actually did 112 sessions.

The Charity book project was successful on so many levels for us."

I would love to do something similar one day. It always seems like it is only the very rich who give to charity but doing something like this will give me a chance to also give in the best way I know how, with photography. With possible relations early next year with Jakaranda Kinderhuis, I might just make them the charity of choice.... Watch this space!