Pursuit was recently commissioned by Pexels to take on 5 city mini-tour to Asia and the USA. From July 20th - Aug 31st 2019, we traveled to Bandung (Indonesia 🇮🇩), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia 🇲🇾), Delhi (India 🇮🇳), New York (USA 🇺🇸) and San Francisco (USA 🇺🇸) and met over 1400+ creatives in-person by hosting 5 portrait photography themed events and photo challenges generating a library of thousands of original photos; furthering the vision for Pexels of making stock photos accessible to creators and partners alike.
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Video Edit by Ricardo Esquivel // Footage Captured by Ahmad Labibi, Dems, Alfan Erdi J, KmlxVisual, Ayush Dagar, Juan Ordóñez, Karston Tannis & Kim Geronimo.
The 5 city tour was the first time we partnered with Pexels with the goal to meet creators in person, provide opportunity, visibility and connect thousands from the community with each other. Over the 5 meet ups we hosted over a month and a half, we saw over 5000 original photos shared on Pexels and got a chance to on-board and work closely with local photographers, models, stylists, MUA’s, videographers and volunteers that of varied experiences and backgrounds.
“Nothing can replace the sense of passion, commitment and productivity that I’ve seen at these meet ups. Creators thrive to PoP events because there’s a certain expectation we’ve created over time and no matter where we go, we see it. In just 2 years, Pursuit of Portraits has met over 10 thousand people in-person and created impact (not just in impressions or buzzwords but IRL) by placing community-first; supporting talent over trend, diversity over monopoly and humanity over autonomy”, says Saunak Shah; Founder of PoP who led the 5 City Tour.
Below are some of the winners who entered and received cash prizes and Fujifilm X-T30 mirrorless cameras for various themed photo challenges that we hosted for each city meet.
PHOTO CHALLENGE WINNERS
PoP also partnered with FujiFilm USA on a global portrait contest called “Portraits with a POP” with Pexels during the 5 City Tour that received over 19,000 submissions.
HONORARY MENTIONS
On behalf of Team PoP, we would like to thank Pexels & FujiFilm USA for providing this opportunity to create impact beyond the online constructs of community and connectivity.
We would also like to thank everyone who joined us on this 5 city mini tour. We are back to New York City but filled with memories and stories that we heard first-hand. Thank you to those who traveled from near and far to join us and everyone else who followed our journey in one way or the other.
We hope to visit a city near you again soon.
