Urban Exposure Exhibit - Poverty in Our Community

For those of you in Calgary... Please mark your calendars....

Urban Exposure Exhibit - Poverty in Our Community

Thursday, 03 June 2010  Time: 18:00 - 21:30
Location: Wallace Gallery, 500 5 Ave S.W.

Please accept my invitation to an exciting Calgary photography exhibition. I have been involved with the United Way of Calgary and Area for several months now, volunteering on a photo project aimed at raising awareness around poverty in the city.  Urban Exposure has rented the Wallace Gallery on Thursday June 3, 2010, where my photographs from the project will be on display.

The photos I have taken for the project are property of the United Way, so I will be unable to post them here, or anywhere else. The only way to see them is at the event!

As I am in Toronto working with CBC Radio, I will be unable to attend the evening. However, my close friend Miss Jessica Piché has also contributed to the project, and I imagine her photos will be stunning as always. She will be on hand at the event (hopefully with her photos across the room as to not take away from mine), and should be able to tell you a lot about the story I chose to tell for the project, and about the project itself. I'll also post that story here (without photos) after the evening.

I will forever refuse to give my photographs away for free, but was thrilled to be invited into the Urban Exposure project, donating my time, skill and ultimately the photos that came out of my experience. A great exception for an amazing cause.

All the best, and I hope you can make it out!

Daniel C Bach

P.S.,  I've just noticed that the United Way of Calgary and Area also seems to have some interesting volunteer and career opportunities available for skilled IT-types on their website: http://www.calgaryunitedway.org/volunteer/