Marti is heading back to the USA after 10 months in Uganda. About this photo she said “It’s rare that the camera reaches the children in Gulu district, Northern Uganda. However, Dog Meets World provided the opportunity for children to have positive portraits taken and to receive copies of the images. For most, it is the only photo of themselves that they own. News of the “dog photos” spread quickly throughout the village and long lines formed. Around the world, millions of other children are waiting for the opportunity. Become a phodographer and give a photograph to one of these children.”

Phodographer Marti Johnson and students at an orphanage in Kampala, Uganada, March 2010

You will never know just how important that photo will be long after it is taken and given.
Delores Barr Weaver, co-owner Jacksonville Jaguars

In a email received yesterday: I am Edwin from Kenya and working in Uganda as a missionary under Touch The World Uganda. Thanks for send (supplies with) Marti Johnson to take Photos of our orphan children. Many of them has never had a photo of there own. They are very excited to own printed photo. I have never heard of a photograph project. It really touches the live of our kids.

Marti, a recent college grad currently lives and works within St. Mary Kevin Orphanage, a facility home to over 150 orphans. Her job is to coordinate our child sponsorship program which provides for the basic needs to the children. Marti’s passion for photography led her to develop Project Perspective, a separate program to teach photography to the children in order to provide the world with a new perspective of African youth (Project Perspective).

These are some of her Primary Six students. To teach them about Dog Meets World she took and printed their pictures. She asked the kids in her photo class about owning pictures. For a majority, these were the first images of themselves that they have ever owned! The students are excited to share DMW with other children as student phodographers.

Marti, a recent college grad has returned to work with orphans in the east African country of Uganda under Touch the World Uganda. These are some of her photography students from her Project Perspective that will be assisting her in practicing Dog Meets World. Marti noted “They were soooo incredibly excited about starting DMW! I explained that children all around the world have participated and that they were going to help capture the children of Uganda…. and then the printing- they watched every single picture come out!” Can’t wait to see the DMW photos that the students and Marti will share. Thank you!