So after waiting for what seems like an eternity, from the end of the masters, to actually get a show together we finally have been told that we can have a show at the Cube Gallery in Manchester (http://www.cube.org.uk) Two days to put up for a Four day show called ”Boundaries: Photographic Conversations with the Global ” open to the public on the 12th september.
Here’s the images that I will be putting up, from my Zambia project on Kabwe, which is the 4th most polluted city in the world.
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The money has been raised thank to all who donated
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Twanfwane community school in Katondo community Kabwe was started by local teachers to provide education for local children whose families couldn’t afford to send them to the state schools. HIV and Aids infection is very high in Kabwe 1 in 3 and 90% of the children at Twafwane are directly affected by this through the loss of one or both parents.
Katondo Community Centre
Twafwane school was started in the local community centre and has grown through kind donations and the hard work of the community to fund the school and the education of the children.
One of the main sources of funding comes through a Maize mill which the school built and runs so that local farmers can grind their maze ready for market.
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By Raising £300 the peer leaders at Twafwane can buy 250 50kg sacks of un-ground maize from one of the farmer who uses the mill. They can they mill the maize, the children help out in the milling a sacking, and then they can sell the maize to the government for 5 times their investment. That’s right they can make £1500 ( which is 10,500,000 Kwatcha) they can then Buy another 250 sacks of maize and invest in the children’s continuing education for generations.
The portraits below are of the children at Twafwane who you will be helping in the first instant and then many more in the years to come, both the children and the families who will have a better chance with the education that you can provide.
Tabitha Zulu
Susan Ntambwa
Sangwani Mulubwa
Percivia Nkoma
Oswald Alitili
Natasha Michelo
Morgan Musana
Mirriam Zulu
Mercy Alitili
Max Katchinga
Mary Mwenya
Martha Kafoto
Loveness Tanda
Helen Phiri
Harriate Nkaka
Emmanuel Kangwa
Doris Mwale
Bupe
Brian Mwansas Bwalya
Blessing Shancolesha
Atha Natalasha
please help by buying one sack of maize.
£1.20 buys one sack 50kg of unground Maize, which can be ground by the school kids and sold for £6 to the Zambian government, this will buy one more bag and contribute to the high school education for the children of Twafwane…… for many years to come.
First wedding fair, and first of the year as we have two more lined up for February.
Here’s Roxanne with the really furry jumper on in the front room of Hornby institute, it a Great building more can be found here,
http://www.hornbycrc.co.uk/
The day was well attended with the trades and had some promising visitors attend.
It was a good learning experience for me, Roxanne has done fairs in the past and knew what to expect from the day, which felt like a day off for me as I wasn’t on the computer all day.
It was good to meet up with other exhibitors and get to know some of the local trades and professions.
Next wedding fair is in Leyland,
With the increase in portable digital device for photo viewing, the method for delivering this new product needed looking at. Yes there are DVD’s etc, but they lack archival properties and can be damaged through handling. So we have just taken delivery of our first batch of printed flash cards, these have the benefit of being a lot more robust and with better archival properties to boot. below is a proof sheet of how they look. They feel sturdy in the hand with a nice finish, they fit in a purse or wallet that holds credit cards and have 4Gb of space on them which should cater for all requirements, and then some.
Our photo stylists are Fotoshop stylist experts, having worked with the product range for 14 years now, learning the industry leading techniques……!
http://uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com/new-beauty-secret-revealed–fotoshop-by-adobe.html
This is a link to a mock add but its something that I have thought about for years as I tweak, and touch and blend if you want to look like the stars in the magazines then get the photos made and realise that you can look like the stars, for the same amount of time that the stars look that way, also before Photoshop there were real artists who would airbrushed on to the negs to create perfection. and people say photographers aren’t artists…
I still think there’s nothing wrong with perfection in a photograph, just along as people understand that look can’t be achieved in day-to-day life, removing the right to fotoshop (Photoshop) would be like going back and telling Leonardo to paint that smile as it was and include all the bad teeth and spots don’t think people would still be buying the poster if the truth were painted….
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