TedxNashville - Jeremy Cowart - A Picture is Worth

[@radekbayek]

I've got so much respect for Jeremy Cowart. Such a talented & inspiring guy.

[@dmather46]

Jeremy is one of the most inspiring people I've met.

[@ezlanpowers]

As a photographer, I can tell you the photographs are some of the most important tools we have in this life. We use them to spread awareness, show the world what other planets look like, remember once in a lifetime events, keep businesses alive, get jobs, and improve the self-esteem of a person. Makeup doesn't make a person beautiful, but it might be a luxury they are denied. While I agree, makeup doesn't make a person beautiful, I also agree that it helps humanize some women, after all it is an art, a decoration, a privilege not a need. Especially the homeless. We see beautiful things like this and chose to criticize them before appreciating them for what they do. These portraits could easily cost $150 a pop, but these photographers are coming together to gift a luxury service many don't have access or funds to afford for the low cost of free. Just to make someones life a little better than it has been. Just to give them a little hope for the positivity there is out there in this sea of shit we tend to wade through in life to get to where we want to be. Stop focusing on the small details. Look at the big picture, the change being made with the talents of someone who could easily chose to dismiss the cause as wasteful. This is a great movement. And this is all coming from someone who runs a body positivity photograph project, photographing women nude before they do anything to change themselves to meet societies beauty standards, to show them how beautiful your body is without those things. Makeup, boosts self-esteem but it doesn't create it. It's a cherry on the top of a Sunday that they offered to maximize the comfort of those who, thanks to society, may not feel beautiful enough without. That's pretty damn incredible if you ask me.

[@dxbasket]

im a photographer and i just teared twice coz i repeated the video twice.. great project soo proud

[@newsgirl132]

I want to hug him right now.

[@liquoriceimages]

Jeremy cowart talented, generous and modest.

[@harnessbells]

hard to even view without breaking down. A camera is a tool that helps us really see.

[@CokerPhoto]

Great work and this is real social media sharing.

[@DoodleTaffy]

This is the first time I've seen this video of this, but not the first time I've heard about The H.E..L.P. Project. I found it from a comment somone had a left on a random photography website that I'd "Liked" on Facebook. The page I'd liked on Fb wasn't one I visited often, but did so that day & read an article that included a letter from a client to a photographer describibng what she did with her money instead of paying $500 for family portraits, only later to find out she had cancer.

[@DeinosMee]

Beautiful

[@revolution27030]

@Budguy68 is this assuming that all celebs and big shots are bleeding hearts? They're not. Jeremy's thing wasn't about profiting or marketing himself. It was about just trying to motivate people to do what they could, when they could, for other folks who just couldn't. BTW, have you ever been to Africa?

[@HenryStradford]

Jeremy Cowart - A Picture is Worth?