Back in 2007 I was con­tacted by Pho­to­sen­si­tive to par­tic­i­pate in a pho­to­graphic project called Cancer Con­nec­tions. Pho­to­sen­si­tive is an orga­nized group of pho­tog­ra­phers who come together to capture pow­er­ful images to get people talking and create social change. It sounded like an inter­est­ing orga­ni­za­tion, so I agreed to help out.

Over the next two years while Cancer Con­nec­tions was estab­lished as a national trav­el­ing exhibit, 10 of my images were dis­played in exhibits all across Canada. This included an exhibit right here in Halifax, as well as the closing exhibit in Ottawa in Spring of 2010. The Cancer Con­nec­tions coffee table book was launched in con­junc­tion with the Cana­dian Cancer Society’s Daf­fodil month, in April 2011. The book holds 1000 images with per­sonal stories and quotes of strength, courage and determination.

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I’m very excited to have Chelsea Quinlan hired on as my part time office assis­tant. She started with me on Thurs­day, May 12th and we had a very pro­duc­tive and excit­ing day.

First was ori­en­ta­tion to my home office, then special intro­duc­tions to my kitty, Morgan. After that we got to work. She helped me finish up a job for Man­ulife Finan­cial, added links to some great com­pa­nies on my website in the Con­nec­tions section and then started editing a job for NSLC.

That after­noon we headed out to Brigadoon Children’s Camp in Ayles­ford. If you don’t know about Brigadoon, you should def­i­nitely look it up. The story is very inspir­ing and the facil­ity, although under con­struc­tion, is well under­way. We car­pooled with Jenn Ross who is Brigadoon staff and then took a tour of the site.

We had to put on all of our safety gear, so here’s a photo of Chelsea rockin’ the hard hat! In the back­ground you can see one of the five ‘cabins’ that are being built for campers, although I’d call them more of a lodge.

Looking for more infor­ma­tion and photos about Brigadoon Children’s Camp and Shari Tucker Photography’s involve­ment? Watch for blog posts and gal­leries in the port­fo­lio section as they unfold!

I’m thrilled to have added Bianca Muller as part of the Shari Tucker Pho­tog­ra­phy team. She brings along a back­ground in pho­tog­ra­phy from NSCAD and an eager­ness to learn lots of new things!

Bianca’s first couple of days started out shad­ow­ing and second shoot­ing with me for a Tech­splo­ration con­fer­ence held at Saint Mary’s Uni­ver­sity. She did a great job the first evening cap­tur­ing lots of candids and fresh­en­ing up her flash skills. By day two we had her going full steam ahead taking lots of photos of the young girls par­tic­i­pat­ing in this really great con­fer­ence about non-traditional career choices.

Bianca and I will be off to Tech­splo­ration in Truro this upcom­ing week for the last of the 2011 conferences.

If you are a woman in a non-traditional career (trades, tech­nol­ogy or science) and would like to offer up your exper­tise and moti­va­tion to aspir­ing young women, please get in touch with the Tech­splo­ration Staff. They are always in need of vol­un­teers and role models for various duties. I’ve been involved as a pho­tog­ra­pher for over five years, but have also been a keynote speaker at the Port Hawkes­bury con­fer­ence. Get involved!