Emerging Artists #4

This shout goes to Ashley Dingess. This little West Virginian has some outstanding fashion photography with a style and vision that is unique and exciting ! Her apartment is covered in taxidermy and her mind is infested with many creative and somewhat crazy ideas! We all cant wait to see more work from this girl.

http://www.ashleydingess.com

Emerging Artist #3

Rob Northway is the man of the day. His portrait style is so clean and beautiful he makes any face mesmerizing. Cant wait to see more!

Check out his work at

http://robnorthway.com/

Emerging artists #2

Shawn Connell, a fellow Aussie, not only is this guy an amazing photographer, but an awesome cook, great designer and to boot knows how to build a mean stone wall, The right way!
It was hard deciding which of his work to display on the emerging artists shout out first, but the winner is the whale project. Breathtaking is just putting it lightly.

you can see more of his images at
http://shawnconnell.com

Here's to great Emerging Artists!

Spring has sprung, new websites are up, and i really have some talented friends out there. So i wanted to show you off!

Today's shout out goes to Andrew Frasz, I fell inlove with his amazing landscapes and cool portraits of Dodgeball characters straight away! (so Brooklyn!)
Andrew is about to embark on an amazing journey across the USA on his push bike. YES that's right, his bicycle! I cant wait to see the images from that trip!

check him out at:
http://andrewfrasz.com/

New York, New York

Here's to one of the greatest cities in the world..

(and bumping into good friends at dusk with tripods!)

Los Ninos, Cusco, Peru

A cause worth giving too....

for information and donations
http://www.ninoshotel.com/

LOS NINOS, CUSCO, PERU-II

LOS NINOS, CUSCO, PERU

Los Ninos Hotel - Cusco, Peru
Niños Projects

A family of 12 boys
Within a few weeks after arriving in Cusco, Jolanda van den Berg
took two boys in. A year later she had adopted twelve boys.
Since then the family has grown with the birth of her two daughters, Panay and Toulouse.

A family of 9 girls and 2 boys
Four years later Jolanda formed a second family. This time 9 girls
and 2 boys were adopted, each one a child who had lived in extremely poor circumstances for years. The second Niños family
lives in their own house. Julia and Vicente Ortiz are the Peruvian
adoptive parents.

A family of 11 girls
The third family is made up of eleven girls who have also all lived
in unacceptable and extremely poor circumstances. Angel and Angela are the adoptive parents here. All families are totally supported by Foundation Niños Unidos Peruanos, which receives
its income from the profits of the two Niños Hotels and from the contributions of the Niños-donors and sponsors.

Two Niños Children's restaurants, 500 children per day In 1999, the first Children's restaurant opened. Since then a second, third and fourth Niños Children's restaurant has opened.

In total, the four Niños Children's restaurants receive 500 children
six days per week, the whole year round. The children come from
extremely poor families and have often been underfed and neglected since they were babies. Every child gets a healthy hot meal every day, the opportunity for a shower, is seen at least twice a year by the doctor and goes to the dentist.

It is just as important to try to give the children a better self-image
and, step by step, to get them used to better social behaviour, as practical help is. This is achieved by offering the children their own safe, clean and private place where they are welcome six days per week; at the Niños Children's restaurants. There is a homework teacher who helps the children with their school work.

Once a month birthdays are celebrated, which is an unbelievably emotional event for a lot of the children. Besides this, the children have sports lessons in the Niños Sports Hall. Sport offers the children the opportunity to enjoy themselves but it also lends itself well to tying up with improving the behaviour, learning to work together, learning that you can win for a change, learning that rules are not there for nothing etc. Above all, the positive attention that the children get from the Niños staff is of great importance.

More than 60 Peruvians permanently employed.
The foundation does not work with volunteers in Peru. In total, Niños employs more than 60 members of staff in both the Niños Hotels as in the Niños Projects, all of them Peruvians and nearly all of them the breadwinner. This way nearly 60 family are supported.

Seven big building projects

Since 1996, Niños has realised seven big building projects. The Niños Hotels and the Niños Children's Restaurants were built including all the necessary facilities. These building projects have offered on average more than 70 builders work for around one and a half years. Nearly all materials were bought locally, meaning that these investments have been almost totally for the benefit of the local economy.

COLOMBIA

a fine art collection, COLOMBIA
All images were shot on a Rolleiflex camera and are printed as shot.
All artworks are 45"x45" inch chromogenic prints, custom mounted and framed in 4'inch black wood (total dimension size 52" x 52" inches)
Part of the Colombia collection featured in the CENTRAL Y DEL SUR exhibit, late 2009

For all sales and exhibition inquires contact info@alisonmayfield.com

Ode to the jam days....

i miss my girls!

Nothin' Like a home made jam!

An afternoon with the girls making jam and eating cheese....a good day!

why not take a bullet?

i love to pull out this every now and then.. an oldie, but a goodie.- viva colombia!

Arizona Beauty with the Hasselblad X-Pan

My good friend Shawn introduced me to the hasselblad X-pan, and it was love at first sight. such a fun camera to use, when your not in a hurry! I love the ultra wide view and the joy of slinging a light camera over the shoulder is priceless, something i am starting to more and more in the days of heavy digital SLR cameras!

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