Lais Lacher, founder of Fotos for Favelas, is excited to announce that the photography organizations will be featured in the Orfeu Negro Exhibit in downtown Manhattan, from 10th to 13th May.
A great organization called Ticún Brasil, that organizes volunteer trips to Brazil, has partnered with Fotos For Favelas to put on this great event.

The event will feature Fotos For Favelas photos as well as work from prominent Brazilian and French artists.

The event will also have live Brazilian music, refreshments and a chance to talk with different Ticún volunteers.

All proceeds from photographs will go back to Fotos For Favelas.


credits: photo by Léo Lima

The exibition will open from 7-10pm on Thursday May 10^th and the closing is from 6-9pm on May 13^th at FB Gallery368 Broadway #209, New York, NY 10013

You can read more about the event at the facebook event here www.facebook.com/events/425426897474904/

The organization plans to create a sustainable community garden and a recycling program with the money. If we raise even more money we plan to hold another photography workshop in the Rocinha favela this coming fall. Fotos for Favelas have also received great press from The Eagle, FFJD and this site, 7Days in Photography.

As another fundraising opportunity, Fotos For Favelas is now selling boxes of cards of 10 cards for $25 dollars. Each box of cards will have ten different photos and a bio of the child who took the photo. They make great thank you cards as well as gifts! You can order them directly through me.

credits: photo by Konstantin Lunarine

You can still purchase individual photos here. www.laislacher.smugmug.com

And a complete collection of the photos in a book here. www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2725251

APR 25th 2012 | COLLECTION OF THE WEEK : BLACK AND WHITE WAVES PRINTS FROM 150,00 €

				by Marco Petracci
				Marco lives near Tyrrhenian coast of Versilia, where the beautiful waves of the sea lead him to practice an extreme sport like surf. view the Collection

APR 10th 2012 | COLLECTION OF THE WEEK : BODY COLLECTION PRINTS FROM 100,00 €

				by Alessia Santi
				I was born on the day of the Ides of March and I like to think this has a magical significance. view the Collection

APR 5th 2012 | COLLECTION OF THE WEEK : NATURAL WORLD PRINTS FROM 100,00 €

				by Leah Dee
				Leah Dee is a 22 year old Sydney-sider, with a passion for shooting the natural & decayed environment surrounding us. view the Collection

MAR 6th 2012 | COLLECTION OF THE WEEK : BOATS AND THE SEA PRINTS FROM 150,00 €

				by Davide Dapelo
				Davide Dapelo (1982); keen on wavesurf and sail,  attended to photography in early age to arrive then to professional photography. view the Collection

BORLIN GIVEAWAY : WIN THIS PICTURE BY BEATRICE AVALLONE.

		Beatrice Avallone was born in Asti, an Italian town, on the 9th of April 1991, and she certainly isn’t a photographer. You could instead define her as a real egoist: she loves to steal moments, using her camera lens, so that she can make them all hers. This is what she is talented at, almost naturally, despite the fact that she has never studied this art. She just steals without a care, smiles, emotions, sensations or objects (and subjects) of every kind: she sees something that she likes and wants, no matter what, and click, she captures it. more about Beatrice Avallone		Borlin Giveaway
				HOW TO. What do you think when we say "Berlin"? Write here your special point of view of Berlin. The most interesting and nice comment to the Facebook's post will win a photo by Beatrice Avallone. The value of this photo is 100,00 Euro and the size is 50x35 cm. You will receive the print numbered and signed by the photographer. Join Borlin Giveaway >>

FEB 22nd 2012 | COLLECTION OF THE WEEK : AUSTIN COLLECTION PRINTS FROM 150,00 €

				by Robert Greebon
				I like to be outside, and photography lends itself to that. My friends and family mostly don’t understand why... view the Collection

FEB 4th 2012 | COLLECTION OF THE WEEK : WAVES COLLECTION PRINTS FROM 150,00 €

				by Gianluca Savi
				During the three-year degree in photography in Florence Fondazione Studio Marangoni. view the Collection

An image a day for 13 Years and counting. This is the project of Jeff Harris, a Toronto-based photographer, who began to take every day a portrait of himself since 1999.

At the moment, he has taken 4,748 self portraits, but the project is going on day by day.

He used the project to inspire him in his daily life, to go out and do something that would get him off his couch.

"I was very much a 9-to-5 person and the project itself was a challenge for me to get outside and not make it look like I had a cubicle job, but that I actually was running around and doing a different interesting thing each day," Harris said.

But that's not all. You can find and buy the limited edition print (200), made by 3653,00 Self Portrait, on Jeff Harris web site.

Ceramic by Giorgio Laveri, italian artist. Personal exibition in Galerie Ferrero, Nice (France), 2010.

JAN 20th 2012 | COLLECTION OF THE WEEK : ABSTRACT AROMAS BY ANDREA SCARFO' PRINTS FROM 150,00 €

				by Andrea Scarfò
				Andrea Scarfò is a freelance photographer mainly interested in social and environmental reporting. view the Collection

Update: Saturday 22nd January, 11.40 am.

First week in photos.


photo from IlPost.it


photo from IlPost.it


photo from IlPost.it


photo from IlPost.it


Update: Saturday 14th January, 2.11 pm


photo from Repubblica.it


photo from Repubblica.it


photo from Repubblica.it


photo from Repubblica.it


"We were very scared and freezing because it happened while we were at dinner so everyone was in evening wear”
Mara Parmigiani, Italian Journalist, Passenger


photo from Giglio News


Photos from Costa Concordia Shipwreck (from Repubblica.it)




Saturday 14th January, 5.05 am.

this post was translated from Costa Crociere.it official press release.

"Costa Cruises confirms that the operations of emergency evacuatrion are still going on. The operation is occurring near the island of Giglio and it is envolving about 3,200 of the approximately 1,000 passengers and crew members on board the Costa Concordia.

The evacuation was carried out promptly, but the position of the ship, which is becoming more difficult, is complicating the last landing.

At the moment, it is impossible to define the causes of the problem occurred. The company is working with the utmost care to give maximum support.

Costa Concordia was making a cruise in the Mediterranean from Civitavecchia with stops planned in Savona, Marseille, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Cagliari, Palermo.

On board there were about 1,000 passengers from Italy, more than 500 from Germany, about 160 from France and 1,000 crew members. " 

Photos from Repubblica.it 

This commercial isn't real, neither are society's standards of beauty.

from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.

Following the Success of S4C Next Generation projects in Rome, Barcelona, New York and Costa Rica, the Barcelona based Catalan photographer Cristina Senserrich, which last year visited the island of Nampula in Mozambique to establish the non-profit organization “Africa Sin Fronteras“, will launch a S4C Next Gen project there in Mozambique!

Her aim is to give young locals the opportunity to approach the  World of documentary photography, in the hope that this will be an opportunity for a potential professional development in their future.

Currently, in the island of Nampula there are neither journalists nor local photographers, but only members of various international organizations, so training future local reporters is a real challenge and a big opportunity.





As you can imagine the difficulty of having cameras, not only for our classes, but also for the  practice of, is the main obstacle to the project.

For this reason, we need YOUR help to collect new and used cameras (complete with battery charger and memory cards) that will eventually be shipped to Mozambique with a one way ticket.

Alternatively, Shoot4Change can also collect funds with which we’ll buy cameras for Nampula Kids.

Collection centers for materials or for donations will be both Rome
Antonio Amendola This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
and Barcelona
David Camesasca This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Thank you in advance for all the help and support to kickstart this challenge!  

Antonio Amendola & Davide Camesasca. Shoot 4 Change

JAN 06th 2012 | COLLECTION OF THE WEEK : COLORED CHOPSTICKS BY BEATRICE AVALLONE PRINTS FROM 100,00 €

				by Beatrice Avallone
				Beatrice Avallone was born in Asti, an Italian town, on the 9th of April 1991, and she certainly isn’t a photographer... view the Collection

JAN 3rd 2012 | FOTOS FOR FAVELAS COLLECTIONS PRINTS FROM 60,00 €

				by Fotos for Favelas "In addition to classes, all of the children had individual time slots where they were given the opportunity to take photos around their neighborhood using a Nikon D-60 SLR digital camera." Lais Lacher
		The money raised from these prints will be destinated to Fotos for Favelas.		view the Urban Collection and Lively Collection

Qamar Hashim, 8-year-old Iraqi photographer, tours famous streets to shoots over Baghdad with a camera.
Oamar is the youngest Iraqi photographer and he already can count several local awards.

In this interview by Reuters, he has answered to the question "Why do you think photography is important?" with very simple words: Photography is very important. It documents life and pauses time. We can show the city, life and the people.
Right.

DEC 23th 2011 | EXCLUSIVE BEACH COLLECTION PRINTS FROM 150,00 €

				by Alex Centrella Alex Centrella is an award-winning photographer who grew up in California...
				view the Collection