Cameras of Kilimanjaro
11 August 2011
Cameras of Kilimanjaro is a hard cover book of photographs taken by the porters who work on Mount Kilimanjaro. The book contains 104 pages of full colour images as well as interviews with the porters, facts on porters working conditions and information on the mountain itself. All profits raised from the sale of this book will be donated to the Kilimanjaro Porters Assistance Project. Blurb will also donate an additional £1 for every book sold.
The author, Helen Osler, is a landscape and cloud photographer who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in 2008. Inspired by the porters intrigue with her cameras when in Africa, she established the Porters of Kilimanjaro Photographic Project to enable the porters to use photography.