A friend of mine who also happens to be an awesome photographer is trying to raise money for a major collaboration with a charity in Ethiopia, please help him out by reading the following and buying some prints. Ben makes genuinely meaningful and interesting work and the prints available are fantastic. I’m definitely picking some up. I’m sure he would be massively appreciative if you could reblog this also.
“On the 19th of March I will be off to Ethiopia for 2 months working on a collaboration with the charity Project Harar. Project Harar helps young people with serious facial disabilities including noma, tumours, animal attacks, cleft lip and cleft palate to access high quality medical care. This will be a huge trip, with Project Harar flying out some top professors and surgeons from Guys Hospital in London performing roughly 60 operations in a short space of time in difficult conditions.
I’ll be flying out early to help show the whole story. To put it briefly I’ll firstly be visiting some of the patients villages meeting and photographing them, and then traveling with them into Addis Ababa, documenting the surgery, and then traveling back with them in order to show the whole process. I’ll also be shooting some short films as part of the project, something I’m very excited about.
Whilst out there I’ll also be shooting some new personal projects.
I’m in the process of setting up a special Tumblr for the trip, where I’ll be keeping a visual diary posting stories and images as the trip progresses so be sure to follow (I’ll get a link on here before I leave).
Currently I’m helping get funding together for the trip, and as part of this I will be selling 10x8” signed prints from my Ghana project as well as two from my hunting series for £10 with all proceeds going towards the trip. So please get involved and help out by buying a print! Or if you’re cash strapped you can help out by sharing this on Facebook and/or Twitter!
If you’re after a specific print, or a larger one just drop me an email. Alternatively you can help out by donating on Project Harar’s Just Giving page - http://www.justgiving.com/project-harar
Will keep you all posted of any further news, and thanks in advance for the help!
