PhotoPhilanthropy
We champion social change, one photo at a time.
Our Mission is to promote and connect photographers with non-profit organizations around the world to tell the stories that drive action for social change.
The PhotoPhilanthropy community is a place for photographers and non-profit organizations to come together - to connect, to tell their stories, show their work, exchange ideas, find opportunities and research financial support for their efforts.
Photography today is an accessible and universal tool with great impact; PhotoPhilanthropy offers a transformational opportunity to personally engage in these powerful and inspirational stories.
Partnering with Ode, they will feature photo essays from our Activist Awards on their website and in their magazine to highlight to power of photography to create social change.
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A photo essay on a non-profit organization dedicated rescuing children from slavery, or those at risk of being trafficked.
Touch A Life Foundation (TAL) is changing the lives of children who were previously sold into slavery in the fishing industry on Lake Volta in northern Ghana. Read more...
A photo essay on a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children in Uganda.
In 2006, photographer Gloria Baker Feinstein travelled to east Africa to participate in an NGO workshop and spent the majority of her time photographing AIDS orphanages. Upon returning home, Gloria felt that she had to do more than put her photographs into a neatly packaged portfolio box. What she saw in Uganda changed the course of her life; she founded Change the Truth the same year. This non-profit organization works to provide opportunities to 190 Ugandan orphans, specifically those who live at St. Mary Kevin Orphanage Motherhood in the southern town of Kajjansi, Uganda. These children have been orphaned by civil war and/or AIDS. Without assistance, their outlook for the future would be dim. Read more...
A photo essay on migrant workers in North Carolina who struggle with low wages, poor working conditions, and the consequences of regular exposure to unsafe pesticides.
Migrant workers in North Carolina regularly log long hours working under a burning sun, planting and picking everything from tomatoes to tobacco. The work is backbreaking and the wages are poor, yet the population of Latino workers continues to climb with the increasing job opportunities. In fact, North Carolina has the fastest growing Latino population in the United States. Currently, there are over 150,000 Latino farm workers and over 1,200 registered labor camps. Read more...
