A photo-documentary about community service of the youth in 25 countries using the exmaple of Lions and LEO Clubs.
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Hundreds of thousands around the globe donate their spare time to help people in need every day. Lions Club is the largest service-organisation of it’s kind with around 1.4m members. Their youth-organisation, the so called LEO clubs have around 170.000 members.
Since 2017 I visited 60 LEO clubs around the world and documented their comminity service with my camera. The photo book contains 400 pages and was revealed during the 100th anniversery of the Lions Clubs International in Chicago in July 2017.
These trips and experiences changed me a lot and it was the best time of my life. Get inspired by hundreds of photographs and motivated to share time with others in order to help.
» If your pictures are not good enough, you were not close enough «
I want to involve the reader into the happening and tell stories. It’s very important for me, not to show harm, but to show the moments of joy, happiness and thankfulness.
With this book I would like to motivate people to share their time with others and help them with this simple act.
On 400 pages I show community service of young people, whom I was able to accompany during my travels in 25 countries over the last three years. From the beginning, the quality of the photos was at the forefront. I wanted to keep the commitment with the utmost attention to detail.
According to the motto "We serve“, I focused on the documentation of projects organized by the members of the clubs during my visit. The aim was to portray the different approaches and ways of "serving" and to compare the similarities and differences in a book.
During the past few years, I have organized all my travels with great care and with great effort in my free time and financed them in the most part. Above all the coordination of the visited clubs turned out to be a big challenge.
I will presented the book at the Lions Clubs International Convention in Chicago in July 2017 and shared my my experiences with attendees from all around the world.
Photography has been accompanying me since my childhood. Cameras are the tool to express myself, to visualize my view of the world and to elaborate topics.
I am 35, I have studied at the Fachhochschule in Salzburg, I am running an advertising agency in Holzhausen and a software company in Wels. I dedicate my spare time to documentation of community service and play snooker from time to time.
Between 2009 and 2016, I was a member of the LEO Club Wels. In 2016 I was honored with the Melvin Jones Fellow, the highest award of the Lions Clubs and since 2017 I am a member of the Lions Club in Wels.
