Community
Pro Photo Supply’s mission is to assist our community in pursuit of the art, the craft, the profession and the joy of photography.
Pro Photo Supply strives to provide the products and the expertise to enable each individual to reach their photographic potential: those who record family memories; those who pursue personal expression; those intent in developing their craftsmanship; those who earn a living by creating visual imagery; those who utilize visual technology to enact social change and those who employ photographic imagery to communicate the interconnectedness of our global community.
The world is our community at Pro Photo Supply
Pro Photo Supply is proud to provide support to the following organizations.
for a complete list of organizations supported in 2007.
for a complete list of organizations supported in 2006.
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For more than four years, Pro Photo Supply has teamed up with The Oregon Zoo and sponsored their wildlife conservation Lecture Series and photography workshops. Staff from Pro Photo Supply is always on hand to answer technical questions that will help you to get the most out of your equipment.
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Over the last two years Pro Photo Supply and Canon U.S.A. have proudly sponsored the Oregon Humane Society’s annual photo contests. The contest include participants from the first grade through twelfth grade and span three categories that consist of, "Be Kind to Animals" Poster Contest, "Be Kind to Animals" Photo/Story Contest and Fuzzy, the Furry, and Feathered Friends Photo Contest.
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Pro Photo Supply and Canon are pleased to sponsor The Japanese Garden's Photographer Membership program for professional and amateur photographers. This membership provides benefits created specifically for photographers.
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Photography, Music & Feeding the Hungry
The Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Blues Student Photography Team with instructor Norm Eder documents every aspect of the Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival, which has raised millions of dollars for the Oregon Food Bank. The festival is Portland’s largest outdoor event, and is the third largest blues festival in the nation. This year in 2007, the festival will celebrate its 20th anniversary and will be the third year of the PNCA’s Photography team.
Pro Photo Supply, who provides Canon digital cameras and lenses with team training for each member, and custom printing of all the images for venues and gallery shows around the community sponsors the Blues Student Photography Team.
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Pro Photo Supply and Nikon are a proud sponsor of Business Education Compact through Matt Zaffino’s, (Chief Meteorologist at KGW TV in Portland) annual charity calendar. All proceeds from this calendar will support the BEC. “Make learning real” sums up the BEC mission.
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For the past five years, Pro Photo Supply has sponsored the photography students in support of OCAC’s Art on the Vine Centennial Auction.
In 2006, Pro Photo Supply sponsored a student of the Oregon College of Art & Craft's photography department. Andrew Buckland received a stipend from us and his work will be available for sale at the 2006 Art on the Vine auction.
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Pro Photo Supply is honored to have sponsored Gerry Ellis’s 2006 South American photography trip. Gerry Ellis is the founder and Executive Director of GLOBIO. As an award-winning nature photojournalist for over 25 years, Gerry Ellis has documented the lives of endangered species across every continent and traveled endless miles in discovery of indigenous cultures and threatened ecosystems.
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The 2nd Annual Architectural Heritage Center photo contest trains its lens on vintage porches in the greater Portland area that tell a story– about home and the people who inhabit it, or about the design and craft of these outdoor rooms that connect us to our neighbors.
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Since 2005, Pro Photo Supply has sponsored the Photo of the Year Contest which enables Photo of the Year to donate nearly all revenue raised through participant contributions to MESD Outdoor School. In 2004, Photo of the Year teamed up with the MESD Outdoor School to raise money for its outdoor education program. Outdoor School provides a unique outdoor education experience to Portland youth and is a program Pro Photo Supply took great pride in sponsoring.
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Pro Photo Supply / Kodak Grant
No one knew photographer Edward Weston better than Charis Wilson. She was 19 when they met and fell in love, igniting one of the great creative marriages of the 20th Century. She would be his model, his lover, his artistic collaborator, and eventually his wife. She would help him apply for and receive the first Guggenheim Grant awarded to a photographer so the he could continue his work. Together they would set off with a camera and typewriter across the American West during the depths of the Great Depression.
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