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Opportunities for Photographers to Get Involved with Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts

by Alison Zavos on November 8, 2012 · 3 comments

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy (and the snowstorm last night) which has greatly impacted the residents of New York City and the surrounding areas, we decided to put together a list of ways photographers in the area and elsewhere can help with relief efforts. The list below also includes photographers and companies who are generously selling prints and donating all of the proceeds from the sales to the American Red Cross and other relief organizations.

And please, if you know of others initiatives, please feel free to mention them in the comments section of this post and/or on our Facebook page.

Photo Exhibition and Print Sales
New York-based photographer and curator Ruben Natal-San Miguel is currently in the throws of planning a photography exhibition with all proceeds going towards New York State water communities affected by Sandy. He’s looking for a gallery to hold the event as well as photographers interested in donating work. Those interested can get in touch with Ruben through his blog, ARTmostfierce or on Facebook.

Pro Bono
Local efforts to provide family portraits to Sandy Survivors are being organized by Elizabeth Griffin, a photographer and editor at Hearst Magazines and a native New Yorker. She is looking for photographers and assistants to volunteer their time and talent to photograph families in the coming months who have lost all of their pictures in the storm. She can be reached at sandyboroughsproject@gmail.com.

Souls.Rebuilt was established on November 1st, 2012 in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The goal is to provide a new set of family memories through photographs to those that lost their’s in the storm. Photographers interested in contributing can fill out this contact form.

Prints For Sale
20×200 is featuring a NASA satellite image of Hurricane Sandy with all proceeds benefiting the Red Cross.

The Billy Farrell Agency is donating all photo sales proceeds this week to the American Red Cross.

After Michael Cinquino’s photo (pictured above) of the Manhattan skyline went viral, he decided to make it available for purchase with 100% of the profits going to the American Red Cross.

Photographer Jeremy Brooks is donating all proceeds from his Instacanv.as gallery sales in November and December to the Red Hook Initiative.

Until November 10th, photographer Logan Hicks will be selling the print “SoHo Illuminated by a Food Cart” with 100% of the proceeds going to the American Red Cross.

Photographer Michael Rubenstein is offering a free print from his archives to anyone who donates over $50 to the American Red Cross or any other relief organization. More details on his Facebook page.

Photographer Christine Zona is selling Jersey Shore Polaroids with 100% of the benefits going towards Waves for Water and the ASPCA-NJ.

Ciao Manhattan (Part 4)

by Alison Zavos on August 11, 2011 · 1 comment

Photo by Ruben Natal San Miguel

Photo by Jason S. Moore

Photo by Emily Gilbert

Photo by Chris Rubino

Photo by Ange Fitzgerald

Feature Shoot is moving to Austin! As a farewell, we will be running your images of New York all this week. Submit your photos here. Deadline is August 11.

Ruben Natal-San Miguel, New York

by Alison Zavos on June 10, 2011 · 5 comments

Ruben Natal-San Miguel, born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, is an architect, photographer, curator, writer, art collector and consultant who specializes in the art of fine emerging photography. He is involved with non-profit art organizations such as ACRIA, Printed Matter, Aperture Foundation, Humble Arts Foundation, Photolucida and The Center for Photography at Woodstock and is the man behind the popular photography blog, ARTmostfierce.

His work was recently shown in the First Class/Second Class group exhibition, co-curated by Asya Geisberg and Leah Oates at the Asya Geisberg Gallery and he will also have works on display in 2011 with Aperture Foundation at the Affordable Art Fair, New York and Art Chicago Art Fair, Chicago IL.

For the past eight years during the summer months, Ruben has traveled by bicycle throughout Upper Manhattan in search of what it is like to live in NYC areas that, until most recently, have been ignored by the government and most of society. Ruben has been able to find, not only a vibrant and colorful vision of that other Manhattan but, also an endearing and very meaningful life lesson of what it is like when the human spirit and communities make the best of others may consider to be so little. This series is entitled, ‘Urban Water Inner Child,’ and will be on view at Art Hamptons (July 7-11). Ruben is represented by Finch & Ada.