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Cameras for Healing

Emotional healing through photographic arts and creative expression for those living with pain, grief, fear, poverty or stress.

Cameras for Healing

by Maurice Henri & Karen Casey

ABOUT CAMERAS FOR HEALING: Founder, Maurice Henri believes that the power of the photographic image can open the heart and change people’s view of the world. It also tells a story of the relationship between subject and photographer. It conveys what the image maker sees, feels and believes.

Using our methods of art for healing, we have helped countless children and adults process stress, illness, and grief.

The Cameras for Healing initiative of Art & Creativity for Healing began in New Brunswick in 2002 as an art workshop to help cancer patients and survivors deal with their stress.

THE MISSION of Cameras for Healing is to support emotional healing through photographic arts and creative expression for those living with pain, grief, fear, poverty or stress. We encourage and develop emotional connections through visual arts in an effort to help circumvent the element within us which repress what we are willing or able to talk about.

THE PHILOSOPHY of Cameras for Healing is to provide a VOICE for individuals by exploring visual arts. Art is a powerful tool for change and Cameras for Healing promotes expression and cultivate the creativity that lies inside each individual. We use visual art to create an atmosphere of inclusion and belonging where often there is none.

Photographic art is used as a vehicle for releasing and challenging individual and communal stresses while encouraging education and promoting cultural changes and awareness.

Art making engages the whole brain and can stimulate integration of the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, where emotional feeling and sensory development is cultivated.

WHAT WE HAVE ACHIEVED Through their involvement in the Cameras for Healing initiatives, participants have developed self-confidence, a sense of pride and self-worth in a climate of trust. Cameras for Healing has brought hope to people living in developing countries, and the means to make positive changes in their lives and in their communities. It has also worked with at-risk youth in our community to help them connect and has offered positive role models to help reshape their view of their world.

For more information please visit: www.kickstarter.com/projects/1316450389/cameras-for-healing

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