Giving Back: First Exposures and Help-Portrait San Francisco

We have been working with Help-Portrait for five years now and this year we participated at the Joseph Lee Rec Center in the Bayview district of San Francisco.  Giving Back is important to Orange so we’re always happy to be able to volunteer our time and/or resources when we can.  Once again this year we teamed up with First Exposures to help with the Help-Portrait volunteer effort.  There were five stations set up with professional lighting donated by Samy’s Camera and a lot of other talented artists were on hand from makeup artists, photographers, and brewers to flickr employees and beyond.

Here’s a few photos from the setup before things got crazy.  If you’re interested in our Giving Back program, you can read more about it and our philanthropic efforts here.  If you are a 501(c)(3) non-profit looking for photography services or volunteers, please do reach out!

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About the Author: Gene X Hwang

Gene X Hwang leads Orange Photography’s photography team and is one of San Francisco’s most sought-after event photographers. His background in corporate marketing communications during the late-’90s dot-com boom gives him an insider’s view of what client teams need, and his push for social responsibility made Orange the first photography studio in San Francisco to earn Green Business certification. Read Gene’s full bio →