larger than life.
I believe...
Giving is only for "the rich" and being rich has nothing to do with money.
An exploration of Albuquerque’s non-profit community
Photography • Kyle Zimmerman & Max Woltman music & editing • Augé Hays
Site production • Deanna Fisher thank you, Augé Hays & Katie Gill for your amazing voices
thank you John Wagner Recording Studio
thank you Albuquerque Community Foundation
annual grant awards and donor appreciation luncheon. Zimmerman donated 150 hours of her time and labor photographing the clients and projects of
12 local non-profit organizations with the goal of telling their stories through pictures.
“I contacted the Albuquerque Community Foundation with the idea of finding one non-profit to which I could donate photographs, as a way of giving back to the community for their support over the years,” says Zimmerman, owner of Kyle Zimmerman Photography. “In our discussions, I discovered what important work the Foundation does to leverage donor funds to make an even bigger impact. We worked together to identify 11 local groups, with the Foundation itself becoming the 12th non-profit.”
The non-profit groups were chosen from each of the Albuquerque Community Foundation’s six program areas: arts and culture; children and youth; education; health and human services; environmental and historic preservation. Says Kelli Cooper, Communications Director for the Foundation. “Because the Foundation is one of the groups who will receive these images, we’re using them in our own marketing and donor appreciation efforts, including a multi-media slide show at the luncheon.”
The project quickly morphed from a simple series of photographs that told one organization’s story to include a series of copyright free images for each group on disc and a coffee table book of each organization’s images for them to use in their marketing and donor appreciation efforts, adds Zimmerman.
The discs and books will be presented to each group at the event.
(8’ by 4’) each holding 20 smaller images will also be on display there. The large images will be on permanent exhibit in the Foundation’s conference room,
while the photo columns will be shown in the Foundation’s gallery.
The non-profit organizations photographed for the “Larger Than Life” project are:
ACCION New Mexico
Albuquerque Community Foundation
ARCA
Archaeological Conservancy
Cloud Dancers of the Southwest
Futures for Children
Outpost Productions
Tree New Mexico
UNM Music Prep
Watermelon Mountain Ranch
Women’s Housing Coalition
Working Classroom
Augé Hays describing how individuals can make a difference by working together.
For more information about Kyle Zimmerman Photography and its services, call 505-232-6986 or visit www.kylezimmermanphotography.com.
For information on the Albuquerque Community Foundation and the organizations it funds, contact Kelli Cooper at 505-883-6240.