Halifax—Local pho­tog­ra­pher Shari Tucker will be opening a new art exhibit as part of this year’s Pho­topo­lis fes­ti­val on Sat­ur­day October 15. Young & Fear­less: Jour­neys for a Life­time cel­e­brates the work of Coali­tion for Kids Inter­na­tional through pho­tog­ra­phy. The opening event fea­tures remarks by Shari Tucker as well as travel talks on Poland and Germany, and a upcom­ing group photo-adventure travel trip called Peru: Through the Lens.

In March 2011 Shari Tucker cap­tured the journey of five Cana­dian teens trav­el­ling to Poland on a 12-day journey to grant wishes to ter­mi­nally ill chil­dren with The Coali­tion for Kids Inter­na­tional. Immersed in the culture and history of Germany and Poland, these teenagers gained a new respect for life, a new outlook on their own sit­u­a­tions and learned to care, share and transform.

“The teens I trav­elled to Poland with came back dif­fer­ent people,” says Tucker. “When you travel half way around the world to visit a dying child whose only wish is to have a laptop, camera or video games, you can’t help but come back changed. The Cana­dian teenagers realize pretty quickly how lucky they are when some­thing that is con­sid­ered a birth­day present here is a dying wish in Poland.”

Shari Tucker is widely known as the pho­tog­ra­pher behind Young & Fear­less: Inspi­ra­tions of Cancer Sur­vivors, which included three art exhibits in Nova Scotia and the pub­li­ca­tion of her first book. Her work has also been included in several national exhi­bi­tions with Pho­to­sen­si­tive, includ­ing 10 pieces in Cancer Con­nec­tions, one in TIEd Together and one in The Energy Project. All vol­un­tary projects working to ‘harness the power of the camera to achieve social justice’.

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