Generous supporters from the MYLONDON project and the RPS have helped helped us purchase eight cameras (Fujifilm XT-30 & Fujifilm XT-30 ii) which were used by the Cafe Art RPS Photography Mentoring Group for the first time yesterday.
The participants have all experienced homelessness and the group sessions, run by volunteers from the Royal Photographic Society since 2015, are a way of empowering and engaging people.
The group meets at different locations every second Saturday afternoon, with a Zoom call happening the following weekend to discuss the photos taken.
The participants come from the MYLONDON project we do every summer - distributing disposable film cameras.
The mentoring group started with a more basic digital camera in 2015, when six X-1 mirrorless digital cameras were donated by Fujifilm - cameras which sustained the group, supplemented by volunteers' cameras, until now.
The reason for the upgrade was to teach more in-depth photography, something they were given a taster of in August to November 2021 when they were lent X-2 cameras by Fujifilm for several months.
Here are some of the photos taken yesterday of the session with the new cameras. There's a mix of participants and members of the general public:
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