MY 21 CHALLENGE
What do you know about youth homelessness? Did you know that there are around 32,444 young people (12 to 24) who are currently homeless in Australia? Did you know that family conflict and breakdown are the main cause of youth homelessness? Did you know that young people aged between 12 and 18 are the largest group experiencing homelessness? Did you know you can help?
Just by reading this you are making yourself more aware of the issue, and now maybe you will go and talk to your friends about it and they’ll talk to their friends and soon this awareness could lead to change. This June I’m going to take the 21 Challenge, so for the first 21 days of June I am going to paint or draw something new every day (a true challenge, you’ll agree if you’ve ever seen my previous attempts at drawing/painting). Through doing this my main aim is to make people more aware of the issue of youth homelessness, and also hopefully raise some money for Open Family Australia (the organisation behind the initiative, they’ve been helping out young Australians for over 30 years!) so they can continue their awesome youth homelessness outreach programs.
You can donate by clicking this link, or you can sign up by checking out the 21 Challenge site and then thinking of something fun/not fun/ridiculous you think you could do for 21 days!
[This is pure inspiration. Photographer Ian Ruhter took his life savings and converted a delivery truck into a giant camera. Not just any camera, one that could produce giant images with silver and light using an old photographic technique called a wet plate collodion process.
So what’s that? The collodion process was invented in the 1800s and is extremely tricky. It requires a plate to be coated in silver nitrate, and then sensitized, exposed, and developed before the plate dries (less than 15 minutes). Now some perspective for those of you who are shooting film and finding it a bit expensive, it costs Ian $500 to produce a single image!
Ian is currently driving his camera/darkroom/truck all over america looking for people and places to shoot. Want to be a part of it?] [via booooooom]
