Make a difference with your photography

Take the chance to make a real difference with your photography and contribute to One Minute on Earth, a project aiming to help street children around the world.

We all live on the planet Earth, in different time zones and different parts of the world. When you read this, it will be night in one part of the world and morning somewhere else. A sunset and a sunrise is always there at any minute on earth.

In 2015 on the 7th of April at 13:00 (New York time), 200 photographers all around the world clicked on the button of their cameras all within the same minute on earth. From all these amazing landscape photos and stories, a photobook was made which was sold to raise money for charity.

100% of this profit was donated to the Ashalayam Deutschland organisation which used this money to support a street children center in Kolkata India. You can still buy this book from our website, which will help us continue to support the kids.

We plan to hold this event annually, with the next one scheduled on June 21st 2017 at 21:00 (New York time). Money raised from the sale of the new photobook will go to a home in South Africa where 75 parentless children live. This year’s event will include not only landscape photos but also street photos. The main rule is that the sky must be shown in the photo, so all can see at what time it was shot when this year’s One Minute on Earth got to you.

1. What is the main goal of One Minute on Earth?

A. To raise money for children.

B. To publish a photobook.

C. To find the best picture.

D. To take pictures of different places.

2.What do the 2015 and 2017 events have in common?

A. They take place on the same date.

B. They each produce a photobook.

C. They require the same type of picture.

D. The money raised goes to the same children.

3.What is the main rule of the 2017 event?

A. All photos must be landscapes.

B. The photos must be taken in Africa.

C. The sky must appear in every photo.

D. Each photographer can submit only one photo.

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