Doing The Help Portrait In Diepsloot Part 2 – The Hardest Bits..

{New Blog Post} Doing The Help Portrait In Diepsloot Part 2 – The Hardest Bits..: Mounting the photos on cardboard..

It was in April this year that a couple of friends had the brilliant idea to give Help Portrait photos to 1,600 children in Diepsloot, one of the largest townships (squatter settlements) in Johannesburg. Inspired by their vision, I had rallied for the readers of this blog to contribute funds to help us achieve what was, at that point in time, still a rather daunting task to me. The fund raising was a success. And what was even more heartening was that a bunch of volunteers had come forward to support our cause and together, we had successfully shot all the portraits for the children . I had closed up the day feeling remarkably strong. It felt like we had conquered Mount Everest. I’m exaggerating but it was a really really good day. I thought the toughest part was over and all that was left to do was process the pictures, print them, mount them on cardboard, and then we cou...

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