Thanks Help-Portrait!

Help-Portrait was an amazing event to say the least.  Among meeting wonderful families and individuals, I also met amazing photographers volunteering their time, skills, and equipment to give a little something back to the community.  This is just a start of something big and I want to thank Jeremy Cowart (the brainchild behind Help-Portrait) for planting the seed not only in my mind but in photographers minds all over the globe.

Although the rain was pouring down on Saturday, we still had a great turnout, better than what I was expecting given the weather situation.  Here’s a little behind the scenes video of what happened that day:

help portrait LA 12.12.09 from Paul Huynh on Vimeo.

Some numbers as of this posting for you folks:  30,000+ portraits taken in 40+ Countries.  How awesome is that?!  In Los Angeles we had 85 volunteers with 6 photo stations, makeup area, greeting area,  and art & crafts area.

Thanks to Kodak for sponsoring us and providing a printing kiosk so we could get the prints to the families on the spot.

Thanks to Global Cafe for letting us use their facilities.

Thanks to Torn Up Tees for providing your services.  You guys made incredible shirts out of old shirts…that was amazing!

Thanks to JenMay for exceptionally organizing everything.

Thanks to all the volunteers.

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