Photo by Vince Fedoroff
SAY ‘CHEESE' – Longtime Whitehorse resident Judi Johnny is photographed Sept. 27 by Michael Kulachkosky for Faces and Voices for Human Rights, the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition's latest Guerilla Photography for Social Change event. Local photographers took portraits of people for a calendar and show to raise awareness of poverty and homelessness.
Members of the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition have released their 2012 calendar.
Members of the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition have released their 2012 calendar.
The item, a result of Guerilla Photography for Social Change 2011, is a compilation of images which were displayed along Main Street during Poverty and Homelessness Action Week in October.
"This is our second calendar, and we're thrilled with the images,” Mark Kelly, one of the co-ordinators, said last week.
"We asked local photographers to take portraits of citizens and hear their thoughts about human rights, poverty and homelessness. The result, we think, is quite powerful.”
"This year's project was very inspiring,” said local photographer Tracey Wallace.
"It clearly demonstrates that Whitehorse residents are willing to speak up about reducing poverty, supporting the community and respecting human rights.”
The coalition is thanking Tarius Designs and the Public Service Alliance Social Justice Fund for making the project possible.
The $15 calendars can be purchased at Mac's Fireweed and Well Read Books.
The proceeds will go toward the coalition's work.
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Linda Cowan Griffith on Dec 20, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Good for the group, Members of the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition, Tarius Designs, the Public Service Alliance Social Justice Fund, the Guerrilla Photography for Social Change, for creating the calendars to build awareness of the "faces of poverty".
Also, thanks to the photographer, Michael Kulachkosky for photo of Judi Johnny who graciously agreed to be shown in the calendar, a person of great courage for speaking out and working on issues of Homelessness, disability, and poverty, not "a nameless private confidential statistic" that governments of all levels can dismiss and ignore as irrelevant.
Poverty and homelessness is a disgrace in Canada that exists from coast to coast to coast and not necessary in this vast beautiful land of ours.