Dear World

Pardon our Progress

Robert Fogarty — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:05:20 +0000

Hello Everyone! Our servers are having trouble uploading images right now. We are actually in the process of upgrading the Dear World Online Platform.

We’re super active on Facebook: www.facebook.com/writeourfuture and you can follow Dear World Founder, Robert X. Fogarty @rxfogarty on Twitter.

We’re pumped to release the new site in May!

Love,

Robert

New York Times reports on Evacuteer.org, Dear World

Robert Fogarty — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:34:33 +0000

NEW ORLEANS–

Yesterday, the New York Times wrote a story about Dear World founder, Robert X. Fogarty other venture, evacuteer.org. The reporter writes “Art has always had a role to play with Evacuteer, and seemed a logical outgrowth of Mr. Fogarty’s interest in art and community engagement. He also started Dear World — originally Dear New Orleans — a series of photographs of people with messages written on their bodies and hands that has included luminaries like the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Susan Sarandon, Rahm Emanuel and the Saints quarterback Drew Brees. Mr. Fogarty’s income from speaking engagements related to Dear World allows him to run Evacuteer unsalaried.

To view the whole story visit the New York Times.

Dear World at the 2012 Harvard Social Enterprise Conference

Robert Fogarty — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:49:34 +0000

Since launching Dear World at last year’s SECON, Robert X. Fogarty has hi-fived Jesse Jackson, written on a Senator’s body in her office, and been taught by Drew Brees how to open a box of baby wipes. He’s also photographed a woman who survived the Japanese earthquake and families from Joplin, Missouri continuing the work that began as a love note to New Orleans.

The stories his subjects tell are caught in his simple and distance message-on-skin portrait style. At the opening night reception, SECON attendees sat for their Dear World portrait and write their love notes.

To whom or what they wrote was up to them.

Find your photo on Facebook. Click and like the page to post.

All my best,

Robert

Dear World partners with Southwest Airlines

Robert Fogarty — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 04:40:55 +0000

NEW ORLEANS–

In early February, Dear World founder Robert X. Fogary travelled to Dallas, Tex. to work with Southwest Airlines. He photographed over 100 employees as well as patients and providers in Southwest’s Medical Transportation Grant program. Each year Southwest gives out tens of thousands of dollars worth of free airfare to patients in need.

To view the whole blogpost that Southwest wrote to release the photos, view them here:

http://www.blogsouthwest.com/blog/making-difference-lives-families-facing-serious-illness-one-ticket-time

You are lovely via our shoot with Falling Whistles

Robert Fogarty — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:51:43 +0000

Falling Whistles gives a small window into our world’s largest war. Originally just a journal written about boys sent to the frontlines of war armed with only a whistle, readers forwarded it with the same kind of urgency in which it was written and demanded to know –

You really need to check out Falling Whistles!

Robert and Drew Brees – Production

Robert Fogarty — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:09:21 +0000

An awesome moment. Brees is everything people say he is and more. –Robert

Drew Brees, Sean Payton and Steve Gleason sit for Dear World

Robert Fogarty — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:20:32 +0000

Former New Orleans Saint battles ALS, motto: “No White Flags.”

Steve Gleason – Inspire

Robert Fogarty — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:57:54 +0000

This is the first in a very special series with one of the most beloved citizens in New Orleans.

Try Again. Differently. By Ellen Whitesides

Robert Fogarty — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:58:09 +0000

I met Ellen Whitesides last year. She’s got a boatload of great ideas and also happens to be awesome. I asked her to write a little bit more about what her Dear World portait meant.

Ellen Whitesides
Hometown: Winnetka, IL

Dear World,

Don’t lose hope. Many things are going well. Many people around the world are laughing and smiling and fulfilling their dreams. But others are not. In the slums of Nairobi entrepreneurs innovate but struggle for capital to start their ideas. In South Africa children in rural areas are taught by those educated under apartheid’s Bantu education, and as a result they don’t learn as much as those in the urban areas. In the tea gardens of northeast India the Tea Community still lacks the basic sanitation taken for granted by their Assamese neighbors. In Malaysia policy makers struggle between uniting a nation under a common language and preserving the cultures of different ethnic groups. In New Orleans a child’s future is determined by the lottery telling them which school they get to attend. People need opportunities. People need the will to keep going. We have to find a way of doing things that is better than the way we are doing them now. If we want to get a better result we have to try again. But we can’t try again and do things the same way we did it this time. If we do things the same way, we will get the same result. We have to keep at it and try again, but we have to try again differently.

Diary of a tough kid

Robert Fogarty — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:49:48 +0000

Semaj Matthews is a fifth grader in New Orleans. He lives with his mom and an older brother to two and a younger brother to two others. He’s a part of a program called Son of Saint, which one of my good buddies Sonny Lee founded. Disclosure: I’m partial as I am a board member. Here’s the gist, we work with young males who don’t have fathers. Whether the father left, died or was never there is a mix.

I just loved Semaj.

-Robert