Sunday, February 3, 2013

, Firstly keep up the great work at Asian Photography magazine! I am a creative entrepreneur and hobbyist photographer from Kolkata and I am reaching out to you to feature a truly amazing worldwide photography movement that we were a part of, called Help-Portrait. Since I did not find the photography community from my city (and India in general as well) being aware of this wonderful “Giving” movement, I took the lead this year to start Help-Portrait Kolkata in my city. In our modest first attempt, we gave out 120 portraits to underprivileged kids all across the city by tying up with a local NGO. We have another event planned in January 2013 where we intend to give out some portraits to women weavers and textile workers. You can find all the details and images of our activities so far on our Facebook page. I would kindly request you to take a look at them. I truly believe that the word about Help-Portrait needs to spread much more in our country since there are tons of passionate photographers here who would love to be a part of this directly. That is the reason I am writing to you with the hope that you will find our work interesting enough to feature in Asian Photography magazine and its social media channels. Thus, the word can spread out greatly in the photo community and we can have Help- Portrait in many more cities across India in 2013.