Campus Kitchen volunteers regularly snap and send us wonderful images of students preparing a meal in the kitchen, community partners attending a Campus Kitchen event, or community garden openings. It’s evidence that there’s a group of talented photographers among the Campus Kitchen family. Now, there’s another way to showcase your passion and talent.

The National Alliance to End Homelessness announced it’s first-ever photo contest, and it’s calling for entries by September 17, 2010 to its Flickr group.

Their prompt: What does ending homelessness look like to you? The National Alliance to End Hunger is challenging anyone with a camera and a purpose to capture this in one snapshot.

Here’s a hint: don’t capture homelessness in the way it’s often portrayed. As the change.org posted on their blog: “For every photo taken of a scraggly panhandler over the next month, let’s snap one of a five-year-old excited for her first day of school or a street paper vendor. There’s a lot of hopelessness, yes, but there’s also a lot of hope. I think hope is more photogenic.”

The winner of the contest gets free registration to the National Alliance to End Hunger conference, and the image will serve as inspiration for all print/design materials for the conference.

Already have a photo you’ve taken through Campus Kitchens you’d like to submit? Access the submission form here, and read more about the contest on the National Alliance to End Hunger web site.

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