Amateur, and Professional, Photography for Change

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Shooting for Global Change

Antonio Amendola has harnessed the fervor of socially concerned amateur photographers to create Shoot 4 Change, a nonprofit that digs into social issues through photography.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/shoot-local-think-global/

Some serious photographers might cringe at being called amateurs. Not Antonio Amendola — he wears the badge proudly.

A lawyer by trade and a photographer by choice, he once organized a workshop in his hometown of Bari, Italy, entitled “On the Seriousness of Amateur Photography.”