I run a weekly photography group, based in the Southern suburbs of Adelaide for people that experience mental health challenges. This exhibition is also a fundraiser, for the group to purchase a DSLR, three lenses, a tripod and a flash. Thus far we have been using mobile phones, but the group have hit a wall in regards to achieving their creative vision within the limitations of mobile phone cameras.
My name is Alex Mausolf, a while ago I created a weekly photography group for people affected with mental health challenges, living in the Southern regions. Members have been using their mobile phones to express their photographic vision and creativity, but the limitations of this have become apparent of late, especially in the expressiveness, editing and printing processes. I am seeking your assistance for the group to be able to raise funds to purchase a DSLR camera with three lenses, a tripod and a flash. One of the lenses is for wide and sweeping landscapes, one for longer/further views, and another lens for close-up or macro details of things. I have five images as a part of this exhibition that I am donating to this worthy cause, as are some of the other artists exhibiting here this week.
The four photographs of mine in the black frames are all one-off long-exposure images, representing the challenges I have, living with schizophrenia, anxieties and chronic auditory hallucinations, experiencing a world that straddles the real and the surreal. These photographs were printed by myself at home on an A3+ sized printer on specialist black and white photographic paper of an archival quality. The other images in this exhibition, in the white frames, have been commercially printed for us.
With your kindness, I can help the participants to reach even higher levels of creativity, self-expression and the resulting boosts in self-confidence, as I assist them to learn how to use a DSLR camera so as to be able to capture their ideas photographically. I am also showing the group how to edit their images, so as to bring out the best of their images on a computer.
Further to this quest for a new camera for the group, we are seeking donations of your old DSLR/Mirrorless cameras and lenses for them, as well as tripods that you may have laying around and do not use any more. We'd appreciate the opportunity to give them a new home where they will be much used and loved!
To purchase one of the prints here at this exhibition, please speak to one of the lovely staff of the Café.
To arrange a donation of an old DSLR/Mirrorless camera with any lenses for them that you may have, or tripods that you want to pass on to the group, please email me at:
alex@playswithlight.net
With thanks for your generosity and support.
Alex Mausolf
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Originally Posted by Mark L
Who knows, there might even be a budding bird photographer or two amongst them. 
