RE: [Leica] $12 buys a camera, a print, and great personal satisfaction

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Kyle

"what a great idea, i'd be embarrassed not to help out! why, i'd feel like a
total snob asshole!"

B. D.

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Kyle
Cassidy
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 12:07 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] $12 buys a camera, a print, and great personal
satisfaction


Hey Lugnutz,
  Remember when Tina posted a while ago about The Children's Photography
Project of Guatemala? Nancy McGirr teaches photography to underprivilaged
children and was looking for donations. Well, the gears have been moving
in the background and freestylesalesco has offered to sell the project a
bunch of the famed leica-h models for $11 each.

  Tina and I are having a print sale to raise money for cameras. So here's
the scoop. You send me a paltry $12, in return you get an 8x10 print and a
child in guatemala gets a camera.

  Do you remember the person who gave you your first camera and showed you
how to use it? Think of that person and open your wallet just a tiny bit
to spread some of that same joy around.

  We're talking the price of a lenscap or processing for a single roll of
film. You can't get an origional print for that anywhere. Let alone the
satisfaction of having done something very good. The gift of a camera is
much more than a physical object, it is an outlet for creativity, it stays
with a person forever and can change a life -- it has certianly changed
ALL of ours. To top it off, a print made from a camera that you bought for
someone might be touring a gallery near you.

  Tina's prints are signed inkjets of the Lenica Church Service seen in
the LUG's April contest, Faith. My prints are pearl finish RC copies of
the West Philly Neighborhood shot seen in the March contest. I'll sign it
if you want. There are 10 prints of Tina's shot and an unlimited number of
mine. Please contact me _off list_ and specify which print you'd like.
Once Tina's run out, you won't have an option. If you would like to donate
MORE than $12, that's great, if you would like to donate something else,
that's great too. One thing we are looking for is to book venues for a
traveling exhibition. If you know a gallery, wall, coffee shop, etc. let
me know.

  You can read more about Nancy McGirr's project here:

http://www.oneworld.org/media/gallery/guatemala/1.html

  You can read more about the Leica-H here:

http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/leica-h/

  Nancy McGirr has published a book of her student's photos, it's
available on Amazon for $19, all proceeds go to the Project. The book is
entitled Out Of The Dump.

  Thanks for your time. Seriously for once,

  Kyle