Daily Foto: Making Friends with Foto in Brazil
NEW Phodographer Emily Kaplan in Mangueira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The BEST side effect of sharing photos with Dog Meets World is making new friends. The personal photos these girls received from Emily and the other students volunteering as part of an Alternative Break program organized through Hillel at the University of Maryland will be kept for years….maybe a lifetime. The girls will have long forgotten Emily’s name, but not how she made them feel by affirming them in this way! Diplomacy for everyone.
Daily Foto: The Magic Printer mesmerizes in Brazil
Phodographer John Carr in Buenos Aires, Brazil, Dec. 2009
John ended his months long backpacking trip around South America by volunteering in a kindergarten for children in one of the poorest villas in Buenos Aires: Los Eucalypts, Suarez. The kindergarten, Jardin Traversuras, is run by donated money and is down to the hard work of a local woman, Lorena, who spends every day with the children before going to work. The children are all aged 3-5 and would otherwise be playing in the streets; they are all absolutely amazing. He took his camera and printer into the kindergarten and spent two hours taking and printing pictures – much to their delight and the gratitude of Lorena.
John says he became a “phoDOGrpaher” because he was “Keen to give something back, spread joy and meet people in the places I travel.”
Daily Foto: Brazilian Kids
NEW College Phodographers in Mangueira, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, March 2010
Students from the Univ. of Maryland College Park, members of the Hillel organization, spent their spring break doing volunteer work in impoverished areas of Rio de Janeiro and brought along Foto and the Dog Meets World project. Melissa Waksman states the value of the project “Every single human being should have a picture of themselves because a picture speaks a thousand words and memories are so important for happiness.” A shout out to the group for making a difference!
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.”