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My Thailand Trip
December 26, 2004, changed the lives of many in southeast Asia and the views of even more people around the world. When I traveled to southeast Asia in April and May 2005, my life and views were changed even more.
My Thailand Trip at www.mythailandtrip.com is an online journal about my experiences as I shared them with my friends and family. As a way to further share my experiences with a larger community, during the month of December 2005, I will display prints of the photography from My Thailand Trip at Stir Crazy Café, a coffee house in the Greater Richmond, Virginia area. This exhibit is in honor of the one year commemoration of the tsunami --- December 26, 2005.
Raising awareness is key to assisting the people living in the affected areas. Beyond awareness, resources are another critical component as it will take years to rebuild. I hope this site serves to raise awareness and to further assist by raising funds from the limited edition series of images that are sold. Half of the profit* will be donated to assist with ongoing tsunami relief efforts in Thailand.
**CURRENTLY ON DISPLAY**
Juried Exhibit at Pine Camp Arts and Community Center
Two of the images on the My Thailand Trip website, The Coming Storm and Call Forth the Moon, will be on display at Pine Camp Arts and Community Center as part of its annual involvement with The National Arts Program, celebrating its eighth year in the Richmond, VA community. More information about the Program can be found at www.ntlartsprog.org. More information on the involvement of the Richmond Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities with The National Arts Program can be found at the www.richmondgov.com site.
The juried show will hang from July 9, 2006 through July 28, 2006. Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday, 10 am to 8 pm
The Coming Storm was distinguished among the entries with the Third Place award in the Amateur category.
Driving directions to Pine Camp Arts and Community Center
The entire collection of photographs was on display for the entire month of December 2005... and the show was extended through January 15, 2006 at...
Stir Crazy Cafe
North Side
4015 MacArthur Avenue
Richmond, Virginia 23227
My sincere thanks to Stir Crazy for the use of their space in getting helping to raise awareness.
* The profit will be determined by taking the overall proceeds from the sales and subtracting the expenses for film processing and framing the images for the shows. The funds will be provided to specific individuals I met on my trip (not organizations) who are still in the Thailand area helping with recovery projects. The individuals receiving the funds are charged with finding locals in need of the funds and dispensing them accordingly for relief projects. [For example, contributions I personally provided to one of these individuals went to paying for school tuition for the daughter of one of the shopkeepers whose store was destroyed in the tsunami. Other such private donations have bought engines for fishing boats, books to replace those lost in the tsunami, etc. My personal experience while in Thailand was the funds being doled out by volunteers who had direct exposure to individuals, in the communities hardest hit by the tsumani, were those funds being best allocated. The volunteers would accompany the tsunami survivor to pay the school fees to the school directly or to buy the engine directly instead of money being handed out.]
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