Local photographer raises money for WaterAid
Photographer Brittany App. Photo by Heather Young
Brittany App shares photos from Portugal at 15C
North County resident Brittany App will share photographs she took on recent travels in Portugal at 15C Wine Shop & Bar, 624 S. Main St. in Templeton. A release party for App’s work will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 19 from 6 to 8 p.m. Live music will be performed by Doc Stoltey of Atascadero.
Photo by Brittany App
App, who graduated from Morro Bay High School in 1998 and lives in Atascadero, makes her living taking photos of people for the most part. She does weddings, portraits, events and commercial photography.
“This show is just fun — it’s fun and playful,” App said. “There’s a little bit of everything.”
She will hang eight of her pieces from Portugal in 15C on Tuesday morning. She will have a couple artsy black & white photos, a couple colorful landscapes, one of her husband, Steven Anzel, on a bike, and others. App and Anzel traveled to Portugal with Gulliver’s Travel of San Luis Obispo as the travel agency’s official photographers for its river cruise held recently.
“This is a special and rare occasion,” App said of her exhibit and release party, adding that she loves to get get people together. “With art shows it’s more about the community aspect, the fundraising. It’s a good reason to get people together.”
App will donate 25 percent of all sales directly to WaterAid, an organization that she’s been raising money for since she returned from a Semester at Sea in 2008. She was the official photographer for Semester at Sea and went to places she’d never been to before, such as Africa, India, Brazil and others.
“I remember seeing a woman in India, older than my mom,” App said, ” in a muddy puddle in the middle of the street doing laundry.” She said that it was a sight she continued to see on her travels because that was the only water available to people. So when she returned home she started raising money for WaterAid and donates a portion of all her sales in photography exhibits to WaterAid.
