Barefeet

Working for the Whitworthian you find out about all sorts of events that you wouldn't always know about. One thing that all the photographer on the paper were encouraged to shoot was people going barefoot for the whole day all around campus. Many people were walking around without shoes and at 12:15 in the HUB a group of students gathered to walk a mile around the loop as a demonstration for their cause.
This was all started by TOMS shoes who have come to campus and sold their shoes on campus to students. Each pair sold sends a pair to a kid with no shoes.
As a photographer this presented an interesting opportunity to get shots of people's feet. That's something you don't shoot as often as photojournalism is all about faces. Me and one of my photographer friends were out shooting this walk around the loop and we thought the best shots would be from ground level to show the bare feet of the people walking. It was especially perfect when we found that they were going to walk right over a giant cut out of a foot that had been taped to the ground in the lop advertising this day to campus. The writing on the foot reads "Fact #1 In some developing nations, children must walk for miles to food, clean water, and to seek medical help"
As it stands I'll turn in my shoot to my editor and we can hopefully see this or similar shots running in next weeks Whitworthian. Until then, check the Whitworthain website to hopefully see the story sometime soon and also for news updates posted daily.