Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:15 AM 11/6/2003 -0500, you wrote: >No, Gary, give up in the sense of thinking that the media - print or >photo - can make any difference at all. I have long believed that >documentary photography has VERY little impact on anything except other >photographers. > >B. D. You might be surprised what a difference photography can make. For the last 20 years, I have used my photographs to put together a slide show that either I or one of the other travelers take around to the 63 churches in our presbytery. The photographs are also hanging year-round in each of the churches. Each of those years we have raised between $52,000 and $57,000, a total of over $1 million, for our Dimes for Hunger campaign, every penny of which has gone to hunger relief programs in our presbytery and in Honduras and Guatemala. I have photographed the differences that the water projects, Heifer Projects, agricultural education, and medical clinics have made in villages that we have helped. The Meals on Wheels program here certainly uses the $26,000 we give them every year to feed the elderly and poor. Now, it could be that we would have raised the money without the photographs, but I do know that most of the people who go on the trips have told me that they asked to go after seeing the photographs. I have taken over 200 people from the presbytery to Honduras and Guatemala. If I didn't think I was making a difference, I would retire today. I'm tired. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html