TedxNashville - Jeremy Cowart - A Picture is Worth

Celebrity photographer Jeremy Cowart tells the story of Help-Portrait and the unexpected impact it had on both sides of the camera. Illustrating how it began as a simple idea that spread to a global movement in just a few months, Jeremy reminds us all that giving within your gifting can change the world.

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[TaitFreak738]

I love Jeremy's photography work, but THIS is why he will always be one of my ultimate, all-time, favorite photography figures.

[harvebra]

Jeremy is great.

[Daisycutting2]

what a pile of self serving horse shit man

[radekbayek]

I've got so much respect for Jeremy Cowart. Such a talented & inspiring guy.

[TheVisualGospel]

Great video. It's a good thing to use our gifts to bless some other people who are all one-of-a-kind and beautiful.

•••See the gospel: TheVisualGospel.info

[Clay Coker]

Great work and this is real social media sharing.

[Katelyn Brown]

This is the first time I've seen this video of this, but not the first time I've heard about The H.E..L.P. Project. I found it from a comment somone had a left on a random photography website that I'd "Liked" on Facebook. The page I'd liked on Fb wasn't one I visited often, but did so that day & read an article that included a letter from a client to a photographer describibng what she did with her money instead of paying $500 for family portraits, only later to find out she had cancer.

[Joel Callaway]

is this assuming that all celebs and big shots are bleeding hearts? They're not. Jeremy's thing wasn't about profiting or marketing himself. It was about just trying to motivate people to do what they could, when they could, for other folks who just couldn't.

BTW, have you ever been to Africa?