The Daily Foto: Delight on both side of the Camera
Phodographer Jane Kosut is pictured with some of her grateful subjects and Foto in Nuevo Chuatuj, Guatemala in July 2009
Jane said “My delight mirrored the reactions of these children and the mother’s reactions when I handed them their pictures.”
The Daily Foto: Soccer is Ubiquitous
Phodographer Amy Speckman in San Ramone, Costa Rica, July 2009
Soccer is the number one sport in the world, Amy’s sure this young man will always enjoy remembering wearing this team jersey and she was happy to provide him with the photographic memory.
The Daily Foto: Shooting only with a Camera
Phodographer Carolyn Lane in a “Metal Artist’s Village” in Haiti, April 2009
Yesterday was the UN designated International Day of Peace. Dog Meets World promotes sharing and cultural understanding. Presenting a person with their photographic image is a small act of PEACE. May one day all the shooting in the world be done with a camera!
The Daily Foto: Smartietown in South Africa
Phodographer Carolyn Lane in Smartietown, South Africa, Feb. 2009
Hopefully this little boy, now having seen his first photographic image, thinks of himself as a smarter citizen of Smartietown.
The Daily Foto: Rio Amazonia
NEW Phodographer John Carr along the Amazon, Brazil Sept 2009
A fascinating account from John Carr of London who is backpacking with a printer to practice Dog Meets World. John emailed, “Travelling with the locals on a slow boat, furnished with hammocks and little else, we’d noticed the day before that occasionally river-dwellers from huts would paddle out in canoes in the hope of collecting something from the boat. Later a canoe actually attached itself to the boat, and three young boys clambered on the boat with bags of shrimp to sell the passengers; aged between 4 and 9, they lived in one of the river-huts and were trying to get money for provisions.
As the youngest of the boys came round to my hammock, I asked him in broken Portuguese whether he wanted a photo. He looked a little confused but was happily manoevered for a photo, before standing sheepishly by as I pulled out a strange contraption and urged him to watch and wait. As I handed him the photo, he seemed completely bamboozled, looking from me to it with a dumbfounded look, before his brothers came along, completely amazed, and ran off down the boat with the photo. One by one, they came back, looking at me expectantly before they too had a photo of their own. Minutes later, with photos safely sealed away, the youngest rowed back out to the river while the other two backflipped off the boat and disappeared into the distance.
John commented that “This was a good first taste of DMW in practice and I look forward to more opportunities.”