Daily Foto: Friends Clapping for her first Photo in Ghana
NEW Phodographer Maia Pelleg in Ghana, April 2010
Maia Pelleg enthusiastically embraced Dog Meets World while volunteering as a Kiva Fellow in Ghana. Her reverence and respect for all she met were evident in her descriptions. She wrote about this woman saying “Yaa, meaning Thursday-born, has never before had a photograph taken by herself. She laughs throughout the whole process, looking at the members of her microfinance borrower group for support. They laugh too, and when the photo is printed it is passed around to over 30 women to admire. Some even clap in honor of Yaa.”
Sharing our joy with friends is special and a one’s first photograph, is like tangible joy. Dog Meet World leaves permanent affirmations and plants seeds of peace.
Daily Foto: In honor of Father’s Day
Phodographer Emily Meader near Siem Reap, Cambodia, Dec. 2009
This father is helping his young daughter pose for her first photograph. In honor of all the times in our lives that our fathers help each of us….we honor all fathers worldwide. Imagine how much he will treasure this picture of his child. Join Dog Meets World and help collect photo for fathers!
Daily Foto: One Year Anniversary of DMW’s Charitable Status!
NEW Phodographer Adrienne Gerard printing pictures and connecting in Kayamandi, South Africa, April 2010
One year after being recognized as a public charity with 501(c)(3) status as a tax exempt organiztion, Dog Meets World is touching lives on BOTH SIDES of the CAMERA’S LENS. Volunteers for DMW are discovering that people can easily connect one-on-one through the power of photography. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to DMW today.
Phodographer Adrienne Gerard while in South Africa succinctly summed up the DMW experience of over 120 photodographers who have taken FOTO the mascot dog to 27 countries and touched thousands of lives. “I knew I was sharing something so meaningful, but it meant so much to me. I cannot wait to continue with DMW.”
Daily Foto: Somewhere Along the Amazon River
Phodographer John Carr along the Amazon, Brazil Sept 2009
Calling all backpackers to join the community of phodographers and connect wherever you go!!
Here is a fascinating account from John Carr of London who backpacked with a printer to practice Dog Meets World. “Travelling with the locals on a slow boat on the Amazon, 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.
Daily Foto: From South Africa in honor of World Cup
Phodographer Carolyn Lane in Beverly Hills, near Cape Town, Feb. 2009
Dog Meets World founder Carolyn Lane spent days taking and printing first photos for kids and families in need, in and around Cape Town including in this area called Beverly Hills…can’t make this stuff up! As you can see everyone was a star!! Over a year before the games would commence, anticipation, conversation and preparation were underway for WORLD CUP….first time to be held on the African continent. So for whatever reason you are traveling, you can easily stop to give back though the power of photography! Become a phodographer.