Photographer: Jonathan Blaustein
Title: one dollar’s worth of tomatillos from Mexico
Description: This photograph is a part of my 2008 series, The Value of a Dollar. During the Spring of that year, I shopped in the markets of New Mexico and purchased food items to photograph for symbolic content. Food is clearly a potent symbol of wealth, power, health, and globalization for the 21st Century. Each image in the project represents one dollar’s worth of food from around the planet, and was shot without artificial light, styling or retouching.
Size: 6x8” image on 8x10” paper
Media: Archival inkjet print
Edition Size: 20
Price: $40
To Benefit: As the United Nations frontline agency fighting against hunger, the UN World Food Programme (WPF) is continually responding to emergencies. They save lives by getting food to the hungry fast, and work to help prevent hunger in the future through programs that use food as a means to build assets, spread knowledge and nurture stronger, more dynamic communities. In 2010, WFP aims to bring food assistance to more than 90 million people in 73 countries. For more information: www.wfp.org
Jonathan's Pledge:
100% of print sales. $800 total if the edition sells out.
Read more about Jonathan on the photographers page.
Photographer: Amy Eckert
Title: Shipwreck
Description: From the project, Manufacturing Home, which explores the question: Can you mass-produce a sense of home? By focusing on brand new, factory-built mobile homes, I could observe and comment on the strategies employed by manufacturers to make them appealing to buyers, and examine how this may or may not line up with my own ideas of home.
Size: 7x7" image on 8x10" paper
Media: Archival inkjet print
Edition Size: 25
Price: $40
To Benefit: After taking a self-defense class in college, I went from being an average student to an honor student. I learned so much more than fighting techniques - I was no longer afraid to raise my hand in class. Feminist Eclectic Martial Arts (FEMA) in Minneapolis empowers women and girls by teaching martial arts and self defense in a safe, supportive, and creative environment. My donation will go to a scholarship fund for women and girls to take FEMA’s Five Fingers of Self Defense classes. For more information: www.femamartialarts.org
Amy's Pledge:
100% of print sales. $1000 total if the edition sells out.
Read more about Amy on the photographers page.
Photographer: Kerry Mansfield
Title: Untitled No. 59
Description: Images from the Borderline series employ no digital manipulation, nor are they double exposures. The image is a distillation of how I see across the boundary between inside spaces to outside and how they seamlessly coexist - interior human spaces and exterior natural environments, coinciding to create a dimensional, third reality. It is there, perched on the fine line in between, where the image exists squarely on The Borderline.
Size: 8x10" borderless print
Media: Digital c-print
Edition Size: 20
Price: $40
To Benefit: As the world’s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists, Susan G. Komen for the Cure works to save lives, empower people, and energize science to find the cures for breast cancer. As a survivor myself, who was diagnosed at 31 years old, I wouldn’t have survived if it weren’t for the staggering research advancements in the past 10 years. Please help support and further the fight for all women. For more information: ww5.komen.org
Kerry's Pledge:
100% of print sales. $800 total if the edition sells out.
Read more about Kerry on the photographers page.
Photographer: Lacey Terrell
Title: Untitled, from The Passing Ring series 1996-2010
Size: 8x10" image on 11x14" paper
Media: Digital c-print
Edition Size: 25
Price: $40
To Benefit: School On Wheels provides one-on-one tutoring for homeless kids who live in shelters, motels, group foster homes and on the streets. In addition to weekly tutoring and mentoring, every student receives a backpack, school supplies, and uniforms; students get assistance enrolling in school and with locating and filing school records; and each student receives a toll-free phone number for around-the-clock support from School on Wheels. For more information: www.schoolonwheels.org
Lacey's Pledge:
100% of print sales. $1000 total if the edition sells out.
Read more about Lacey on the photographers page.
Photographer: David Wright
Title: Peter, 2009
Description: In January and February 2009 I spent 2 months in the small village of Alebtong, Uganda. Peter is one of only a few elderly leaders because most were abducted and brutally killed by the Lord's Resistance Army for not offering support to fight the Ugandan Army. Absence of elderly persons amongst the communities has adversely affected their culture and development.
Size: 9.6x12" image on 11x14" paper
Media: Archival pigment print
Edition Size: 20
Price: $100
To Benefit: A River Blue, a school in northern Uganda providing psychosocial counseling and intense vocational training in topics like tailoring, agriculture, and arts to vulnerable youth, formerly of internally-displaced persons camps. For more information: www.ariverblue.org
David's Pledge:
100% of print sales. $2000 total if the edition sells out.
Read more about David on the photographers page.
Photographer: Elizabeth Fleming
Title: Hammock
Description: This image is from an ongoing body of work called Life is a series of small moments, which is my attempt to create lasting documents of transient moments, specifically within the realm of childhood and child-rearing.
Size: 7x10.5" image on 8.5x11" paper
Media: Archival inkjet print
Edition Size: 20
Price: $40
To Benefit: I first learned of the Austin Children's Shelter through my beautiful friend Laura, who volunteers there. I connected to the foundation through hearing firsthand what a difference was being made in the lives of abused and neglected children who need help and hope for the future in Central Texas. As a mother myself, it was important to me to choose a charity that makes an important difference in the lives of young people. For more information: www.austinchildrenshelter.org
Elizabeth's Pledge:
100% of print sales. $800 total if the edition sells out.
Read more about Elizabeth on the photographers page.
Photographer: Annie Marie Musselman
Title: Angel in Blue, 2008
Description: The work I produce documents the delicate union that exists between humans and animals. The series Finding Trust documents the infirmed animals’ recovery at the Sarvey Wildlife Care Center in the Cascade Mountains near Seattle with a sense of wonder as they heal, hoping to return to the wild forests of the Northwest.
Size: 7.5x10.25" image on 8.5x11" paper
Media: Archival pigment print
Edition Size: 20
Price: $50
To Benefit: Sarvey Wildlife Care Center rehabilitates injured and orphaned wildlife in the Pacific Northwest. They receive immediate medical care, food, and shelter and stay there until they are ready for release back into the wild. Wildlife education programs offered help to sensitize the public to the needs of conservation of wildlife for current and future generations. The ultimate goal is to keep Northwest wildlife safe and reproducing, while balancing the ecology. For more information: www.sarveywildlife.org
Annie's Pledge:
100% of print sales. $1000 total if the edition sells out.
Read more about Annie on the photographers page.
Photographer: Jon Feinstein
Title: 8 Grams
Description: This series uses a typological study of burgers, fries, chicken nuggets, etc. to investigate the love/hate relationship that many Americans have with fast food and, like many other details of global culture, its ability to be simultaneously seductive and repulsive.
Size: 12x12" image on 12x12" paper
Media: Digital c-print
Edition Size: 20
Price: $40
To Benefit: Housing Works is the largest community-based AIDS service organization in the U.S., as well as the nation’s largest minority-controlled AIDS service organization. Since founding in 1990, they have provided lifesaving services such as housing, medical and mental health care, meals, job training, drug treatment, HIV prevention education, and social support to more than 20,000 homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS. For more information: www.housingworks.org
Jon's Pledge:
100% of print sales. $800 total if the edition sells out.
Read more about Jon on the photographers page.
Photographer: Kelly Shimoda
Title: Before lunch: Flaccanicco, Italy
Size: 8x12" image on 11x14" paper
Media: Digital C-print
Edition Size: 20
Price: $45
To Benefit: Start Small. Think Big., Inc. empowers low-income working families in the South Bronx, New York to increase their economic opportunities and build sustainable financial independence. To this end, the organization provides access to affordable consumer credit and civil legal assistance, coupled with financial and small business planning and education, to help its clients build sustainable financial independence. For more information: www.startsmallthinkbig.org
Kelly's Pledge:
100% of print sales. $900 if the edition sells out.
Read more about Kelly on the photographers page.
Photographer: Max S. Gerber
Title: Mother Nature Doth Provide
Description: In 2007, wildfires destroyed many homes in San Diego. While on assignment there, I found that one thing left were random pages from books. This is one of those pages, from a series made on one particular street, where some houses were totally destroyed and others, just feet away, were untouched.
Size: 7.5x9.375" image on 8.5x11" paper
Media: Archival inkjet print on watercolor paper
Edition Size: 20
Price: $40
To Benefit: Camp del Corazon, an organization that provides a medically supervised, residential summer camp for children ages 7-17 living with heart disease. Located on Catalina Island, the camp has served approximately 300 children each year for the past 11 years. Camp del Corazon is totally free of charge for it's participants. For more information: www.campdelcorazon.org
Max's Pledge:
100% of print sales. $800 total if the edition sells out.
Read more about Max on the photographers page.
Photographer: Brea Souders
Title: Wasp Comb, 2007
Description: A wasp comb that I collected while staying on a houseboat in the middle of a Louisiana bayou.
Size: 8x8" image on 9x9" paper
Media: Digital c-print
Edition Size: 20
Price: $40
To Benefit: Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (CRCL). Several years ago I read a book titled Bayou Farewell that tells the story of the disappearing land all along the Louisiana coast, and chronicles the ongoing loss of wildlife, culture and industry. The bayous have lived in my imagination for so long, I felt compelled to go there and see for myself what was happening. I stayed in houseboats deep in the bayou, saw the oak trees dying from encroaching salt water, talked to people who still lived off the land but who feared for their future. CRCL is an amazing organization that's trying to literally turn the tide in this fight for the Louisiana coast and its people. For more information: www.crcl.org
Brea's Pledge:
100% of profits. $800 total if the edition sells out.
Read more about Brea on the photographers page.
Photographer: Sonja Thomsen
Title: crawfish (lacuna detail)
Description: The photograph is one of seventy-five images from my 2009 photographic installation titled lacuna, which considers memory and aging.
Size: 7.5”x7.5” image on 8x10” paper
Media: Digital c-print
Edition Size: 20
Price: $40
To Benefit: The non-profit charity: water. I live on a Great Lake; I am spoiled to live in the vicinity of 1,180 cubic miles of fresh water. Water is a constant subject in my artwork and a resource I often take for granted. The organization charity: water brings clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations. They give 100% of the money raised to direct project costs, funding sustainable clean water solutions in areas of greatest need. For more information: www.charitywater.org
Sonja's Pledge:
100% of print sales. $800 total if the edition sells out.
Read more about Sonja on the photographers page.
Photographer: Dave Jordano
Title: Room Detail #2, Canute AFB, Rantoul, IL, 2007
Size: 9x12" image on 11x14" paper
Media: Archival inkjet print
Edition Size: 20
Price: $50
To Benefit: The Ace of Cups Coffee House in Cairo, Illinois. Three young Floridians, Chris, Adrienne, and Zach moved to Cairo in 2009 and opened the Ace of Cups, a non-profit venture aimed to make a difference in Cairo’s economically crippled community. Cairo has the highest unemployment in the state of Illinois and 60% of the children living there live under the poverty level, ranking it the 16th highest in the nation. The Ace of Cups is a refuge for a community in need by providing a used book and movie library, game room, crafts activities, open mike and poetry readings, free movie and bingo nights, live music events, and above all a safe haven for kids and teens to hang out in. For more information: Facebook/Ace Of Cups.
Dave's Pledge:
100% of print sales. $1000 total if the edition sells out.
Read more about Dave on the photographers page.
Photographer: Ben Huff
Title: Facing North, Barrow, Alaska
Description: This image of an abandoned home on the coast of the Arctic Ocean was taken during an afternoon layover in Barrow in November, 2009.
Size: 8×10" image on 8.5×11" paper
Media: Archival inkjet print
Edition Size: 20
Price: $40
To Benefit: Gift of Life Transplant House in Rochester, Minnesota. In February 2009 my wife, Deanna, received a kidney transplant at the Mayo Clinic. Since 2007, we have traveled numerous times to Mayo for tests, treatments, and finally a transplant. The Gift of Life House was our home away from home for much of this time. As a donation-run communal mansion, it provides long term housing for transplant recipients, their donors, and families. We are forever grateful to them and those who support their efforts. The donation for the sale of these prints will be made in the name of my wife, Deanna, and her donor Trevor White. For more information: www.gift-of-life.org
Ben's Pledge:
100% of print sales. $800 total if the edition sells out.
Read more about Ben on the photographers page.
Photographer: Melissa Kaseman
Title: Hanging Snowflake
Size: 8×8" image on 8.5×11" paper
Media: Digital c-print
Edition Size: 20
Price: $50
To Benefit: I chose the Inglis House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in honor of my mother, Cathy, who lived there the last two years of her life. In addition to the specialty nursing care she received, she had the chance to fall in love again, sit in the sun, and live out her life with dignity and choice. The Inglis house provides programs and services designed to enable people with physical disabilities to enjoy life with the greatest amount of independence and mobility. Inglis works with people with physical disabilities to create and provide practical solutions so they may pursue their life goals. For more information: www.inglis.org
Melissa's Pledge:
100% of print sales. $1000 total if the edition sells out.
Read more about Melissa on the photographers page.
Photographer: Susana Raab
Title: Old Havana Street, Cuba, 2000
Size: 8×10" image on 8.5×11" paper
Media: Archival inkjet print
Edition Size: 20
Price: $50
To Benefit: I chose the The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (OCRF) in gratitude towards my mother, who was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2002, and following a three-year remission, continues to valiantly fight this disease. The mission of the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund is to fund research to find a method of early detection and ultimately a cure for ovarian cancer.
In support of their mission, the OCRF helps patients and their loved ones understand the disease and its treatment, and provide outreach programs to raise public awareness. For more information: www.ocrf.org
Susana's Pledge:
100% of print sales. $1000 total if the edition sells out.
Read more about Susana on the photographers page.
Photographer: Emily Shur
Title: Picnic Table, Queenstown, New Zealand 2008
Size: 8×10" image on 8.5×11" paper
Media: Archival inkjet print
Edition Size: 20
Price: $40
To Benefit: I chose the Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research in honor of my grandmother and everyone who loved her. The Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation is dedicated to attacking the scourge of Alzheimer’s with a 3-pronged assault focused on the cause, care, and cure for Alzheimer’s disease, as well as supporting the public with educational programs. For more information: www.alzinfo.org
Emily's Pledge:
100% of print sales. $800 total if the edition sells out.
Read more about Emily on the photographers page.
Photographer: John Loomis
Title: World’s Largest Rocket, Kennedy Space Center, 2009
Description: The Ares I-X rocket, 327-feet tall on right, awaits a Oct. 28, 2009 test flight in the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Size: 8×10" image on 8.5×11" paper
Media: Archival inkjet print
Edition Size: 40
Price: $40
To Benefit: Texas Equusearch is a non-profit civilian search and rescue organization dedicated to searching for missing persons. Often working hand-in-hand with local law enforcement, the all-volunteer team has conducted over 1,000 searches around the U.S. and the Caribbean and is responsible for returning of hundreds of people to their families. For more information: www.texasequusearch.org
John's Pledge:
100% of print sales. $1600 total if the edition sells out.
Read more about John on the photographers page.
Photographer: Allison V. Smith
Title: Island House. August 2009. Vinalhaven, Maine
Size: 7×7" image on 8×10" paper
Media: Digital c-print
Edition Size: 10
Price: $75
To Benefit: La Reunion TX (LRTX), an emerging artist residency program situated on a thirty-five acre plot of urban forest in Dallas, nurtures and inspires artists in the creation of new work. Since 2006, LRTX’s outdoor gallery and studio space has served local artists and students in cooperative efforts with the Nasher Sculpture Center, The Dallas Museum of Art, KERA's Art & Seek, The Student Conservation Association and through outreach programs such as Art Chicas Unidas and the Environmental Art Program. LRTX's initiatives fulfill the idea that "the cultivation of new art and ideas is essential to human progress." LRTX seeks to transform our community through art and create lasting social change in Dallas. La Reunion TX is a 501(c)3. For more information: www.lareuniontx.org
Allison's Pledge:
100% of print sales. $750 if the edition sells out.
Read more about Allison on the photographers page.
Photographer: Dalton Rooney
Title: Palermo, Sicily, 2008
Description: This photograph is part of a series of images from Sicily. It was taken in Palermo, from a hillside near the grotto of Santa Rosalia.
Size: 7.5×7.5" image on 8.5×11" paper
Media: Archival inkjet print
Edition Size: 20
Price: $40
To Benefit: A citywide effort to plant one million trees in New York City over the next decade, MillionTreesNYC is a collaboration between the NYC Parks Department and the New York Restoration Project. The New York Restoration Project is dedicated to protecting, expanding and beautifying open space throughout the city’s five boroughs—a catalyst for the economic revitalization of distressed New York City neighborhoods. For more information: www.milliontreesnyc.org.
Dalton's Pledge:
100% of print sales. $800 total if the edition sells out.
Read more about Dalton on the photographers page.
Photographer: Kevin J. Miyazaki
Title: The Shutters in Cheryl's Room, 2007
Description: This photograph is from a series, Early Places, in which I document places from my childhood that remain unchanged.
Size: 8×10" borderless print
Media: Digital c-print
Edition Size: 20
Price: $40
To Benefit: Growing Power is a national non-profit organization and land trust supporting people from diverse backgrounds and the environments in which they live. The group works to provide equal access to healthy, high quality, safe and affordable food for people in all communities. Growing Power’s co-founder, Will Allen, was awarded 2008 a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008 for his work with the organization. For more information: www.growingpower.org
Kevin's Pledge:
100% of print sales. $800 total if the edition sells out.
Read more about Kevin on the photographers page.
