The last couple weeks, we have been working on getting a package together for our white pages candidates. Those "White Pages" will feature people that inspire us to make this great project happen, people of great influence, social character. There is a few people out there that you can only be astounded, as to what they did for the community and how great their impact was and still is.

One of these people, surely is Bill Gates, alongside his wife Melinda. With his extraordinary dedication to charity work, he really greatly inspires us to keep this going. Bill and Melinda Gates have established a charitable foundation that has grown to be among the largest of its kind helping wherever they can, all over the world.

They travel the world - just like us - to make something happen. Something, that hopefully helps others along the way, may it be in education, health or to fight poverty. For all this, we sent them a Thank-You box last Friday that includes a dvd with the testimonials done thus far, and one of Jeffrey Gitomer's books, the YES attitude, and also the prints of what we have accomplished so far to share some of our success stories in the book.

This way, we would like to express how much we are inspired by them, and invite both of them to join us in our white pages, to inspire others to get involved, to give to Foundations, and ultimately make the world a better place.

Care package to Bill Gates

It is Saturday morning, my kids wake me up quite earley, 5:30, to make sure I am not late to NRJ, a popular French radio in Montreal. I had top be there at 9h... but it only takes 15 minutes to go.

I have to admit that I was a little nervous before to walk in the building, but Julie St-Pierre was there with Dominic Arpin to receive me in a relax week-end atmosphere. The way they both share their enthusiasm about the photo Art Book 360 made me feel that everything will be just great.

We had four minutes to talk on the air and I was overwhelmed by their desire to communicate our message. It was a very good occasion to announce officially our 12 hours Challenge on March 18th at the Eaton Center in Montreal. More details about that very soon.

This was my first live interview for The Photo Art Book and I really have to say a special Thanks to my friend Dominic Bourget for his implication.

NRJ Radio with Julie St-Pierre and Dominic Arpin

Here is the video for Imabulle and their new project: www.livretdegrossesse.com

This production is the biggest one so far with 29 people involve. Thank you everyone for your effort. We are very happy with the end result and it is a great motivation for the upcomming photoshoot.

Page 263: Video of Le Livret de Grossesse

The Urban Male Magazine (UMM) has featured the Photo Art Book 360 in their latest issue. And this is not even the best part about it! They agreed to a special deal, which will feature one of their readers in one of our books pages, specifically page number 230, for a list price of 5'100 Euros. The participant, who will also be featured on a special, dedicated page in the UMM's upcoming summer issue, will be able to help Amnesty International's strive for human rights. We are stoked about this and can not wait to meet this generous someone that makes our world a better place, one step at a time!

Click on the spreads to download the full size pdfs!

Special project: Urban Male Magazine

L'Itinéraire magazine

Press: L'Itinéraire magazine

This is the look of our first page under 1000 Euros

Photomaton for the Farha Foundation p. 343

There has been lots and lots of people that called in (1-(514).577.8453), wrote emails, hit us up on facebook, stopped us on the street, etc etc. the last couple month. And quite a few people actually wanted to purchase a page in the book, but since the beginning we were determined to fill every page under a thousand Euros with special projects, and not have them for regular sale.

Now, yesterday night, the Farha Foundation here in Montreal, held it's annual dinner ball "Maskarade 2010". And we were there, to support, videotape and photograph. Now, we also had the chance to shoot our first page under a thousand Euros there, which was a great success.

The idea was to set up a photobooth, where the attendees of the dinner ball could get there picture taken for 20 Canadian Dollars, all of which go directly to the Farha Foundation. They got 4 pictures total, no redo's, no choosing, just like you would in a photobooth. After taking the pictures, the donors got their filmstrip printed within minutes.

Thanks for everyone that used our photobooth, and even if it was a lot of people at once sometimes, I can say that I had a lot of fun with every single one of you, and I hope that we were able to make your experience that night even better.

So all in all, we raised 400 dollars with this, which equals a total of 280 Euros. Therefore, the final image will appear on the page worth 280 Euros, page 343! However, the final image is not yet ready, but here is one of the filmstrips from the many we did that night:

Farha Maskarade, our first page under a thousand!!

Here is the final shot that will appear on page 263 of our book, featuring the donors from Ima Bulle Inc. and all those other stars that helped us through the day! For a bigger version, click on the image and navigate through the page layout.

Page 263 - Final shot!

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家家户户，人人有喜气；
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共迎金虎个个有福气。
祝华人虎年吉祥!

虎年祝福

The photograph we shot on this past Sunday did have a large meaning. The donating participants Sophie and Tania are officially launching their maternity guide, which respectively is their own new baby.

Sophie (left) and Tania (right) Julie Deschambault from MATOM (middle).

They told us that this picture meant a lot for them and we wanted to not only satisfy them, but make them go crazy over it. Keeping in mind to make a difference in the life of pregnant woman with their guide, they decided to contribute to the Montreal Diet Dispensary, an organization dedicated to help pregnant woman in need. So the concept of the picture was evident right from the beginning.

Naturally, I had my little pocket camera with me to bring you behind the curtains and show you a little bit of what was going on. Like always, there will be a behind the scenes video coming shortly, so please come back to check that out. I promise a great video!

Full House at our studio as all of the shooting's stars arrived and makeup sessions started.

Touchups by Fang Fangs assistants, who did an amazing job that day.

Fang Fang being a great organizer in the backstage circus with hairstylist Patrick Nadeau (back) and Carmelle DeRoza (right) - both Satellite - and Dominique of Gloss.

TV personality Virgine Coossa (left) with our own Fang Fang during makeup.

I would also like to mention how important the participation of designer Yves-Jean Lacasse of Envers was for us. Not only was he thrilled to be part of this picture with his most recent collection, but he decided to actually come on set to help us and our fashion stylist Christina Louiso. He brought a great energy to us and made the day with all the beautiful stars even more special. So did Christina!

Fashion stylist Christina Louiso with designer Yves-Jean Lacasse.

On Stage preparations with the theatre in the final photograph to the left.

Again, we would really like to give a huge shout to everyone who participated to the success of this production. We can proudly say that this is the shoot that featured the most people so far and it went by greatly. After two weeks of intense preproduction, we were now finally able to realize this special photograph and shortly we will be able to present the final image, so please stay tuned for the final image to come, as well as the video! :)

Page 263 - A shoot for their baby!