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Mary Rafferty’s Best of 2023 Was Inspired By Her Experience At The Urban Grower’s Collective.

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The first time photographer Mary Rafferty visited the Urban Growers Collective she was hooked. UGC is a Black and women-led non-profit farm in Chicago’s South Side, and towards the end of last …

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Ryan Forbes’ Pro Bono Work For Road Dogs and Rescue

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Photographer Ryan Forbes recently donated his time to help Road Dogs and Rescue get the word out about their work rescuing dogs; primarily bull dog breeds,  who are most likely …

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Rhea Anna Is Paying It Forward

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What better way to pay it forward and add beautiful imagery to your portfolio than to collaborate with an organization whose mission is to improve the lives of refugee women? …

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Art for Assistants Raises $220,000 and Counting

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Photographer Tim Tadder is the brainchild behind Art for Assistants, a fundraising effort initially established to benefit his photo crew out of work due to the corona virus outbreak. Once …

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Jeff Moores Answers the UN Creative Call

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When The United Nations recently put out a worldwide call to visual and performing artists to create artwork to help raise awareness of how we all can help “flatten the curve.” Jeff …

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Andy Anderson, Memory Keeper

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  The Lonka Project was established to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the death camps at the end of World War II. It is a voluntary photographic venture carried out …

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Petra Stefankova Creates Positivity for Parky Life

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Illustrator Petra Stefankova recently shared her contribution to a charity project, Parky Life, created by Havas Lynx, UK. In order to increase awareness of Parkinson’s disease, the agency created a dedicated website and …

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Jason Lindsey Is Doing His Part

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Photographer/director Jason Lindsey is helping to raise money to transfer the Jordan Creek Preserve in Southern Illinois into a land trust, which the owners will then open for canoe access, …

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Workbook Radio Episode 13- Daniel Bedell with Andy Anderson: On Editorial, Personal, and Pro Bono Work

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Workbook Client Daniel Bedell is a commercial photographer by day and a podcaster by night. In this Workbook Radio series, Daniel chats with friend and lifestyle photographer, Andy Anderson, about …

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Photographer Dan Goldberg Pays it Forward in Puerto Rico

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We learned about Dan’s efforts to aid in the effort to help Puerto Rico recover from the devastating hurricane this past fall and wanted to know more about his activities …

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Every Other Day

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Every Other Day is an integrated public service campaign produced and photographed by Scott Van Osdol, and features a short film produced, directed and edited by The Noble Lab. It is also a personal, pro …

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Gren Group Helping to Fight Hunger

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In this season of giving, the Gren Group is doing its part by teaming up with the Ad Council and McCann Erickson to create this public service announcement to help the millions of Americans who struggle …

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Midwest Indi Film Fest selects Andy Goodwin’s EXONERATED

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We first blogged about Andy Goodwin’s Project for Northwestern University School of Law’s Center on Wrongful Convictions in June of this year. We can now congratulate him on the selection …

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Jimmy Fishbein, Capturing Identity

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We applaud photographer Jimmy Fishbein for his work in helping the largely misunderstood LGBT Community tell their stories, and in this series specifically, transgender women over age fifty. Through their …

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John Slemp’s Flight Jacket Project Takes Off

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We first posted about this project last July, and a lot has happened since then. John has been working tirelessly to turn this idea into a reality, and all the hard …

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DNC Donkeys and Philly Cheesesteaks

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If you’re in Philadelphia for the DNC, or just curious about the art scene there in Philly, you might want to start following hometown artist, Hawk Krall on Instagram and …

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Exonerated

Andy Goodwin Spends Time with the Exonerated

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A record 149 people were exonerated of crimes they did not commit in 2015, and that number is likely to continue to climb in the years ahead. In Andy Goodwin’s …

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Giving Back

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It is absolutely true that the best way to get out of a funk is to do something good for someone else. Photographer Peter Poby was reminded of this recently and writes about his experience while, as he says, “giving a little back.” Read what he has to say:

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Fernando Decillis in Haiti

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Fernando Decillis was recently contacted by a friend who works at CNN to collaborate on an investigative story concerning the Haitian immigration crisis on the island of Hispañola in the …

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Science Not Stigma

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In the early days of the AIDS crisis, all gay men were banned from donating blood. This policy is still in effect today despite advances in science and the fact …

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