Project ReCapture

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Project ReCapture Light FM Interview

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I can’t begin to imagine the grief that people who have lost family and homes in the fires are feeling. We packed up and evacuated early Saturday morning as we live in a high fire danger area. Thankfully our homes and actually the entire hills were spared from the fires, but its horrendous to contemplate the amount of loss.

In asking God what we could do to help those affected by the fires, I realise that He calls us to use the gifts that he has given us. I’m not a firefighter, or a trained counsellor, but we are photographers, and we can use this gift to bless those that have lost their precious memories in the fires. Though their photographs are irreplaceable, we can provide them with new memories, new photographs of their family.

As Wedding and Portrait photographers we know how important it is to protect peoples memories, we had backups of backups in various places during the fire danger (including online) and took all our hard drives and computers down the mountain with us to the safety of my parent’s house. But there are those that didn’t expect the fires to ravage their area, or who couldn’t collect their photos before evacuating lost everything.

Project ReCapture gathers photographers from across the State of Victoria that will offer free Portraits of families who have lost their precious memories in the fires. The Photographers will provide families with prints and files of their new ReCaptured memories.

This will take a congregated effort of many photographers who want to give to this cause through their professionalism, their time and their art. Emerald Eye Photography will bring these photographers together and will get the word out to the public to ensure that the hundred’s of people that have lost their homes.

If you know of a family that requires these services please contact us and we will put them in contact with their closest photographer that is part of this Project.

If you are a photographer that would like to be a part of Project ReCapture by offering your time and skill please, please contact us urgently.

We are now also looking into the creating of a coffee table book telling the stories of those families so deeply hurt by this disaster. Again we are seeking those willing to give, and are particularly putting the call out to Book Printers that are willing to print a run of these coffee table books as a donation. The books will then be sold to raise money for Bushfire relief. This wonderful idea was supplied by Mark from Enhance Studios.

If you are in the media and would like to get in contact with us to discuss further and publicize Project ReCapture to get the words out to the families that have lost so much, please contact Karen on 0416 233 451 or karen@emeraldeye.biz

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This initiative is supported by the AIPP - Australian Institute of Professional Photography