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      llf on May 3

      i am a backer but have not received any updates on this project or on rewards. Can someone please get me up to speed? thanks

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      Deborah K. Hirsch on January 19

      Yes! Congratulations, Emily!!!!

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      Cyrus Dowlatshahi on January 19

      Thats whats up

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      EvilPoet on January 17

      Congrats!

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      Tanya on January 17

      I'm so excited for this project. Congratulations on making your goal!! I can't wait to hear about your continuing progress.

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      lucy hunnicutt on January 8

      Thanks for working to change the world. What a lovely project.

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      suzanne africa on January 4

      ROCK ON KIDDO!!

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      Veronica Kyle on January 3

      Orrin, my brother you are such an inspiration!
      Emily, I look forward to meeting you in the very near future!
      Veronica

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      Selena on December 7

      Congrats Emily! Nice video.

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This project successfully raised its funding goal on January 18.

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Symbolic support, show us that you care and help our project to be seen on Kickstarter

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Personal thank you on our project website

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A 4 x 6” postcard featuring a completed SEE POTENTIAL installation site with a personal thank you from Orrin Williams and Emily Schiffer.

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Set of five 4 x 6” postcards featuring completed SEE POTENTIAL instillation sites, and a box of community garden-raised organic mint tea.

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A DVD with exclusive, behind the scenes footage of the instillation and outreach process. AND a SEE POTENTIAL bumper sticker.

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An easy to follow and beautifully designed How to Guide to Aquaponics and window farms (indoor growing systems that raises vegetables and fish). And an 11x17” poster featuring a completed SEE POTENTIAL installation site.

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An 8x8” print on archival matte paper by Emily Schiffer (your choice from the three images featured below) with a note by Orrin Williams handwritten below the image.

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A Limited Edition signed, handcrafted book (20 total), with high quality prints of images from our public art project and quotations from the community.

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Sponsor the printing of a banner that will be installed in Chicago's South Side as part of public art project (your name will be acknowledged on the installation site).

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An exclusive 14 x 14” photograph by Emily Schiffer with a note by Orrin Williams handwritten below the image (your choice from the three images featured below).

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Three 14x14” photographs by Emily Schiffer with a note by Orrin Williams handwritten below the image.

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"Regardless of the subject matter, I'm interested in depicting obvious and essential details of life that are often overshadowed by larger, more newthworthy circumstances."

B. 1980. In 2003 Emily Schiffer received her BA in Fine Art and African American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2005, she founded the My Viewpoint Youth Photography Initiative on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota, where she continues to teach and shoot. Awards include: a 2011 Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund Grant, the 2010 Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Portraiture, the 2010 winner of the PDN Photo Annual Personal Project Category, the 2009 Inge Morath Award, presented by Magnum Photos and the Inge Morath Foundation, and a 2006-2007 Fulbright Fellowship in Photography. Emily has exhibited and published her photographs internationally.

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