Handing down the culture at C4C
Blue Earth’s second annual Collaborations for Cause conference has come and gone. This year’s event was in Portland and co-sponsored by Ecotrust. Benj facilitated a too-full-of-awesome-people panel on Constructing Collaborations. We also gave a five-minute Lightning Talk on how we turned a 400 page scientific report into four short and personal stories.
Highlights included an opening keynote by Andrew DeVigal and David Waingarten from Second Story and an evening talk with photojournalist Ed Kashi. Matt Black, Andy Maser and others treated us to some inspiring case studies. There was even a grandma bear puppet.
I’ll leave you with six memorable quotes from the event:
“I thought I was getting stories, but I was getting my culture handed down to me, from generation to generation.” —Ed Edmo, Storyteller, Poet and Artist
“An important note on collaborations: Agree on what success looks like from the start.” —Amy Kober, American Rivers
“Who’s going to make the change? General awareness is not enough. Numbers are not as important as depth.” —Amy Yenkin, Open Society Documentary Photography Project
“You’re talking about data? We’re going to get some data. It’s called goose bumps and heartbeats.” —Neil Ever Osborn, Photographer
“We need to get to the head, the heart and the hand.” —Julia Plowman, Context Partners
“I have never been more excited than I am today about making pictures.” —Ed Kashi, Photojournalist
Too much wisdom (and too many friends) for two days. See you next year!
Photos by Carolyn Holland, Tim Matsui, Carey Wagner, Ashok Sinha and Benjamin Drummond.