If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Harry Aaron is a millionaire.A photographer by trade, his portrait sessions cost hundreds of dollars. But during covid when so many people were out of work, including himself, Aaron had an idea.He created “pay what you can” photoshoots.In other words, if all you have is $2, you pay $2. Aaron says it gave everyone a “new sense of confidence, that maybe something good might come forward.”With the people he met, the stories he heard astounded him, like the chef who survived by selling cheesecakes on Instagram.”He was making them out of his home kitchen and making them through the pandemic. That’s how he kept the lights on,” Aaron said.Aaron says one musician barely made it to his photo session in one piece.Somewhere on the journey from his home to the photo shoot, someone gave him a black eye.Even though the man had a shiner, he posed for the pic with a cigarette dangling from his mouth, looking exasperated. To Aaron’s amazement, the musician called to say he was using the pic to get gigs.Aaron doesn’t like to get involved in politics but says politics inspired his upcoming photo session. He calls it the truID Project, an opportunity for people to get a portrait-quality picture of themselves in the gender they identify with.Aaron says the gender-affirming portraits will “let someone stand in front of a camera and show who they truly feel they are” instead of “somebody that society expects.” The photo sessions will happen in several cities in the nation, including Orlando, on June 3.Aaron says stylists and makeup artists have volunteered their time so that the portrait “matches who they really are,” and they will “ leave with a photo they can hold on to and really cherish.” Top headlines: Florida man who lost arm in gator attack says it’s ‘not the end of the world’ Man pronounced dead after rollover crash that shut down part of SR-417 Brevard sheriff: Elementary school teaching assistant arrested for possession of child pornography
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Harry Aaron is a millionaire.
A photographer by trade, his portrait sessions cost hundreds of dollars. But during covid when so many people were out of work, including himself, Aaron had an idea.
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He created “pay what you can” photoshoots.
In other words, if all you have is $2, you pay $2.
Aaron says it gave everyone a “new sense of confidence, that maybe something good might come forward.”
With the people he met, the stories he heard astounded him, like the chef who survived by selling cheesecakes on Instagram.
“He was making them out of his home kitchen and making them through the pandemic. That’s how he kept the lights on,” Aaron said.
Aaron says one musician barely made it to his photo session in one piece.
Somewhere on the journey from his home to the photo shoot, someone gave him a black eye.
Even though the man had a shiner, he posed for the pic with a cigarette dangling from his mouth, looking exasperated.
To Aaron’s amazement, the musician called to say he was using the pic to get gigs.
Aaron doesn’t like to get involved in politics but says politics inspired his upcoming photo session.
He calls it the truID Project, an opportunity for people to get a portrait-quality picture of themselves in the gender they identify with.
Aaron says the gender-affirming portraits will “let someone stand in front of a camera and show who they truly feel they are” instead of “somebody that society expects.”
The photo sessions will happen in several cities in the nation, including Orlando, on June 3.
Aaron says stylists and makeup artists have volunteered their time so that the portrait “matches who they really are,” and they will “ leave with a photo they can hold on to and really cherish.”
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