Mighty names from the worlds of art and documentary photography have donated 100 prints for a charity auction to be held on ebay.fr between 19th and 29th January 2006. Among the contributors are Robert Doisneau, Sebastiao Salgado, Sarah Moon, Mary Ellen Mark, Marc Riboud, Martine Franck, Paolo Roversi, Gilles Perress, Willy Ronis and William Klein. Many prints are signed and a number are rare vintage prints. Starting prices on ebay will range from 1 to 3000.
The high-tech Reuters auditorium is a prestige venue to display the photographs and a challenging contrast to the context in which PhotoVoice carries out its work. From orphanages in Cambodia to the streets of Kabul, PhotoVoice is the first international charity providing training in photography to some of the worlds most vulnerable people, with a particular focus on women and children. It was named Best New Charity at the 2004 UK Charity Awards.
For the last three years PhotoVoice has held an annual print auction in London, at Bloomberg L.P in 2003 and 2004 and in December 2005 at Reuters, Canary Wharf to raise money for its projects. Renowned photographer and long-term supporter of PhotoVoice, Sarah Moon has extended this initiative and personally invited many friends and contemporaries in the photographic industry to donate to the 2006 ebay auction.
Sarah Moon wrote, Tiffany Fairey & Anna Blackman created PhotoVoice five years ago. One went to Nepal, the other to Vietnam. This is how it all began. They gave cameras to child refugees and to street children. They taught them how to use them and made them understand that choosing a subject was itself a language, a way of asserting who they were. Now, in the use of a camera, they have a voice to be heard and listened to, a PhotoVoice to echo throughout the world. In support of PhotoVoice, I join my voice to those of Robert Delpire and of Michel Christolhomme, in the organisation of a charity internet auction of photographs taken by all those who listen to the PhotoVoices and who, like us, intend to help them.
Funds raised through the auction will enable PhotoVoice to establish a new project in 2006 working with children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and to continue its work with disadvantaged young people in Nepal, Cambodia, Vietnam and the United Kingdom.
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