Vancouver Sun Article on Waves of Change

The exhibit Waves of Change launched yesterday. It was a stellar event, a wonderful turnout and show of support with lots of great media attention including Global TV, CTV, Avenue Magazine, and more. The reaction was exactly what Melanie and I would have wished for, people visibly moved by the imagery and stories, lots of wonderful feedback, soo happy! Trent Edwards, a journalist from the Calgary Herald ran an article today in that was also picked up by the Vancouver Sun. So happy that this photo documentary work is getting some attention for a great cause. Please visit the new website, freshly unveiled at www.makewavesofchange.org I welcome peoples comments! here is a link to the piece in the Herald and the Sun http://tiny.cc/w3poh

Water Photo A Day 4 - Women and Water

Women in the village of Karaikudi, the Chettinad region of Southern India, walk together early on a Sunday morning, to a water source where they will both collect water and have an early morning wash. There are 900 Million people in the world who have to walk more than 1 KM to get water. Often that water is not good quality. Karaikudi India 2009

CAWST presents "Waves of Change" a photo-documentary exhibit - June 10th Calgary City Hall 4 - 6 pm with guest host Mark Tewksbury

water photo of the day

As today is a monumental day in terms of our working project "Waves of Change" I am planning to spotlight a new image every day up until the official launch of the "Waves of Change" exhibit next Thursday June 10th. Today was a dry run as 1/3 of the exhibit was installed at Nexen for Environmental Week. It is pretty amazing to see it all come to life after the work and planning and gave me the idea to countdown with a photo a day. The first image is one of women laboring in the tsu nami effected region of Nagapattinum near the Bay of Bengal in Southern India. Every year the Indian government promises to pay workers a minimum wage for a certain number of days for community work of this nature. Many of the women looked far beyond their years to be doing this type of work, but not that it is much different in comparison to seeing women working as flag holders in construction zones here at home, except for the hard physical work part! It was around 41 degrees in the middle of the day when I caught this image of the women in their saris carrying heavy containers to revitalize and clean out their community oorani (water storage tank).

The Situation

It has been a wonderful beginning to 2010. Contacted by directer Terry Miles in early January to do still photography for his wonderful feature titled "A Night for Dying Tigers". The ensemble cast was amazing to work with and included Jennifer Beals, Gil Bellows, John Pyper-Ferguson, Lauren Lee-Smith, Kathleen Robertson, Tygh Runyan, Leah Gibson, and Sarah Lind and even more! Shooting wrapped Feb 5th.

Since then the Olympics have taken over! Currently working on booking headshots and pre-production on the upcoming "Make Waves of Change" exhibit, website and exhibit debut in Calgary on the 8th of June. For more info check out www.makewavesofchange.org

Also in the planning stage for Haiti in August. Originally planning to go in May, it has been pre-empted until August. This trip will be to collect more imagery for the Waves of Change Water Project in conjunction with CAWST.