About the MyLondon calendar project
One hundred single-use Fujifilm QuickSnap cameras were given to people with lived experience of homelessness at St Paul's Cathedral on May 26th, 2023.
A crowdfunder, in August and September 2023, helped pay the production costs of the 2024 MyLondon calendars, greetings cards and photos. We pay all the greetings card profits to the photographers who are affected by homelessness. £2,000 in prize money is shared, in 48 prizes, between the top 25 photographers.
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Looking back: Peta Pixel (USA) on MYLONDON (2015)
Photos and cards from before the 2023 project are also being sold in this campaign with 100% of the profits going to the individual photographers.
The basic concept of "camera to calendar" has already helped us help other organisations set up MyBudapest, MyBrighton & Hove, MySydney, MyNew Orleans, MyPerth, MyToronto and MinhaSao Paulo in Brazil in November 2015 Fujifilm has helped the projects in all of those cities with cameras. In September 2023 we helped homeless charity Pehchan do MYMUMBAI in India.
Milena took this shot of the Palace of Westminster with a goose posing in front of it. It will be January in the 2024 MYLONDON calendar.
Alan McCann directed the photo he's holding of him and his best make Kevin in front of a mural on Tottenham Court Road, London. Kevin, who is also participating in the project, has cancer and Alan wanted to show his support for him with this photo. They are both living in supportive housing with St Mungo's.
Paul Harwood took a fantastic beach scene shot - in the heart of London! Not many people know about the beach that appears at a low tide (yes, the Thames is tidal). It's August in the 2024 calendar.
The photographers and the photos
Photographers were given training in the use of the single-use film camera at the start of the project. Of the 105 cameras given out, 85 came back and