Summit Speech School Hosts 22nd Annual Spring Benefit
Posted on January 20, 2012 - Filed Under Charity
Summit Speech School’s 22nd Annual Spring Benefit will be held Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at Fiddler’s Elbow Country Club, Bedminster, NJ. Nigel Barker will present Nigel Barker: In Focus.
The popular silent and ticket auctions include experiences, trips, concerts, events, gourmet dining, gift certificates and so much more. The 22nd Annual Spring Benefit offers lunch and dinner seatings. For reservations call Summit Speech School, 908-508-0495, email development@summitspeech.org.
Summit Speech School teaches children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing to listen and speak. Located in New Providence, NJ, the school serves over 190 students, ranging from infants through high school seniors.
Dreams Are Not Forgotten Premiere
Posted on November 29, 2011 - Filed Under Edeyo, NB Videos, Travel Shoots
My second documentary shot in Haiti, Dreams Are Not Forgotten, premieres this Friday in Miami during the fabulous art show of Art Basel. This film like all my documentary films has been a labor of love. I did however take a very different approach with Dreams. The first doc we shot, Haiti: Hunger & Hope filmed in 2008 was about bring the situation in Haiti to people’s attention and highlighting the charity Edeyo which had just built a school in the slum called Bel Air in Port-au-Prince. I appeared in the doc and narrated the whole film to help illustrate the complicated state of affairs that had brought the country to it’s knees. We were there right after the 2008 food riots. We decided to make Dreams Are Not Forgotten with the enormous help of Pamella and Dan DeVos to tell a very different story. Of course Haiti is familiar to almost everybody since the catastrophic earthquake in 2010, but we didn’t want to tell the same old story but rather we wanted to tell a small story of a few individuals striving to live their lives in Port-au-Prince. We chose the slum of Bel Air again but rather than sweeping shots of destruction and chaos that comes to mind and that we highlighted in the previous film, we chose to focus on the intimate and personal nature of life. Waking up in the tent cities and going to school, church, grocery shopping, playing football and straight living…..in the slum. The film looks through the eyes of a little girl called Roodline who was abandoned by her mother after the earthquake and now lives with a teacher and 3 others in a tiny tent near the school she attends, the Edeyo School. We follow a young man called Leslie who has grown up in the ghetto and we reminisce threw the eyes of his step father Roland a 64 year old man who remembers the dreams he had for Haiti and still has for his children. Dreams Are Not Forgotten narrates itself and is beautifully scored by the Brother’s Lit. Haitians are amongst the strongest and most determined people I have ever met and my hope is that this film will help people see we have much in common despite our differences. Most of all we all love, loose and dream.
Coco Rocha for Senhoa
Posted on November 3, 2011 - Filed Under Charity, NB Videos, Photography, Sony
Coco Rocha who is one of the most sought after models of our time and a personal friend, has a heart of gold. A few months ago she told me over lunch in the West Village with her husband James about a personal project that she wanted my help with. Coco had designed a collection of jewelry for an organization called Senhoa.
Senhoa supports victims of human trafficking by providing income generating opportunities, social reintegration and programs for self development. Senhoa currently has 3 core programs in Cambodia to aid the rescue, rehabilitation and education of young women sold into slavery.
Coco was hoping I could photograph her and a few of her friends for the campaign. Of course I was delighted to donate my studio and shoot the Coco Rocha for Senhoa campaign. Nothing gets me more excited than creating images that sell hope and opportunity.
I called in my team and we shot both video and stills at Studio NB working into the night shooting the legendary Iman, Caroline Trentini and the lovely Coco Rocha. So now you know exactly what to ask for this holiday season!
100% of the proceeds from the proceeds of the sale of these individually handcrafted jewels go directly to fund Senhoa’s community development programs.
Check out Senhoa for more information.
All the shots were taken on my Sony A900 using the 70-200mm G-lens and the 85 Zeiss prime lens at 160th/sec at F18
Nigel and Ted
Posted on November 1, 2011 - Filed Under Edeyo, NB Videos, Nigel Barker Today
Join me at Bloomingdale’s in NYC on Thursday to celebrate the new Ted Baker London shop from 6-8 pm. You’ll also catch a sneak preview of my soon to be released documentary, Dreams Are Not Forgotten, with 10% of the proceeds benefiting my Haitian charity Edeyo.com
Jordache
Posted on October 21, 2011 - Filed Under Photography, Studio NB
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