Our vision is simple: for an exceptional photo, you need more than just a great photographer and the right moment. You also need an extraordinary subject. So it's obvious that the subject should profit from the sales as well, right? We think that's just fair, but normally that's not the case. We're here to change that.
That's why for every art print sold, Photocircle and its artists donate part of the proceeds to a humanitarian, environmental or development project in the country or region where the picture is from. That way, we can give back to the people and places that make our images unique. As both Photocircle and its artists wave a part of the proceeds, you get beautiful art and the chance to make a difference without having to pay more yourself.
2020 we started our afforestation project in Ethiopia, hoping to plant a total of 600,000 trees by the end of 2024. Within only five years, these trees will absorb over 50 million kg of CO₂ from our atmosphere.
With your support we sponsor three-year-old Jyoti in a tiny village in Uttar Pradesh for one year. The sponsorship will help to establish education, health and sa...
This project supports ten-year-old girl Sannchay with a sponsorship for one year. The sponsorship provides health education, an improved schooling system and the ...
With this sponsorship for eight-year-old Olrich you will support the extension of civil protection in case of natural disasters, the equipment of schools and medi...
This project grants three-year-old Erik a sponsorship for one year. The sponsorship supports the communal development of the area by sustaining children's rights ...
This project grants economic and social support to eight-year-old Dalia for one year. The sponsorship will contribute to a safe access to drinking water in Dalia'...
This project is aiming to free Kamalari girls from exploitative working conditions, to grant them access to education and a self-determined life.
With this sponsorship you strengthen children's and women's rights in the Colombian region of Villanueva and contributes to the construction of sanitary facilitie
This project strengthens community schools in the Bafatá area and improves the quality of the curriculum.
By supporting Schülerpaten Berlin, you contribute to the individual tutoring of three kids with migration background.
By supporting this project you contribute to humanitarian help for refugees from Mali by the refugee agency of the UNHCR.
This project supports the erection of refugee camps, the distribution of relief supplies and medical care for starving refugees from Somalia.
With this project you can make a contribution to the founding of a new camp for Sudanese refugees and fuel the transport of relief supplies.
This project funds the printing of 5000 new flyers for Kulturleben Berlin in order to spread information about their free program to fill empty seats at cultural
Pigs serve poor families as an important source of income. By supporting this project you help raising money to buy a piglet for a family in Myanmar. Two piglets
Beyond being very cute, goats are a valuable addition to a family. Goats can produce milk which in turn provides nutrition and protein. And a pair of breeding goa...
With your support Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) undertakes a one year-long sponsorship for orangutan orphan Miko in one of BOS's rehabilitation wards. The spons...
With your support, NETZ provides access to elementary education for five young girls in Bangladesh.
The UN estimates that there are about 150,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan. With this project you help Syrian refugees in Jordan! With 120 € you support one family...
By supporting this project, you are making it possible for both Roma youngsters and children in Bijeljina (Bosnia and Herzegovina) to have an access to education ...
This project supports HIV-positive babies who have developed drug resistance because they were breastfed by their mothers, who have to take anti-retroviral medica...
With your support we give one child in Burkina Faso the opportunity to attend kindergarten for two years.
By supporting Schülerpaten Berlin, you contribute to the individual tutoring of three kids with migration background.
By supporting this project you help 10 families in Myanmar to get access to clean water. For 100 € we'll buy 10 ceramic filters for 10 families in Myanmar. It's...
By supporting this project you help to provide access to elementary education for five young girls in Bangladesh.
By supporting this project you enable Romani children in Skopje/Macedonia to take part in educational activities. We want to establish a dancing project for girls...
By supporting this project you help giving street kids from Haiti's worst slums the possibility to visit the world outside of their misery. For many of them it is...
Since its establishment people and institutions from Ghana and around the world such as musicians, students, cultural centres, universities, journalists and peopl...
The suffering that came with the Syrian war can not be put in words: four million Syriens are on the run in their own country, two million are seeking refuge in o...
Pigs serve poor families as an important source of income. By supporting this project you help raising money to buy piglets that help a family in Myanmar to start...
Skateistan uses skateboarding as a tool for empowering youth, to create new opportunities and the potential for change.
Since Skateistan began i...
Drinking water, tents, blankets, food and medicines are the most important thing the affected people need now in order to survive. With 80 € we can provide one ...
By supporting Schülerpaten Berlin, you contribute to the individual tutoring of three kids with migration background.
We provide CARE packages containing tools and materials that allow 10 families to repair their own home.
13.2 million people were affected by the stronge...
More than two million people fled Syria. Most of them have little more than the clothes they were wearing when they left their homes. With 600 € you can help p...
Kovalam Surf Club motivates kids from surrounding villages to get off the streets and into school by offering them free surf lessons but simultaneously strictly e...
With your help Photocircle e.V. can make a day away from their emergency shelter possible and invite about 50 kids to spend a day in the Berlin zoo.
This project gives 30 families in Guatemala access to clean water: for 1.000 € we'll buy 30 water filters.
With your help we give 6 children in Burkina Faso the opportunity to attend kindergarten.
Your purchase helps us send 10 girls in Bangladesh to school and provide them with a brighter future.
With your support, Photocircle and Moabit hilft! will be able to host a winter festival for asylum seekers in Berlin Moabit. That way, we can turn their (in many ...
With your help, Myoli e.V. grants a scholarship to a child from the township of Khayelitsha near (Cape Town) to ensure the child’s education for one year.
With your help, we will work towards greater mobility for refugees in Berlin through buying tickets for public transport and bicycles.
€600 will buy much needed winter aid for 5 refugee families: a Winter CARE Package including a stove, fuel, blankets and winter clothing for a family of six cos
During the winter months, millions of refugees from Iraq and Syria need weather-proof tents, blankets, stoves, fuel and warm clothing. For many Syrian refugees, i...
With your contribution to this project, you support the creation of a positive image of physically and/or mentally challenged people in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
With 800 Euro, the Girl's Club can organize a theatre workshop, held by the local initiative "Barefeet Theatre" - this will help the girls discover ways to expres...
With €850 we are able to fund school education for 50 female 1st graders for an entire year!
This project gives 40 families in Guatemala access to clean water: for 1.330 € we'll buy 40 water filters.
The SZ project "Student Lunch" provides children in Munich and the region a free hot meal at school and in childcare facilities. Many pupils from low-income famil...
With €180 we can provide school supplies for survivors who are preparing to go back to school; with €360 we can support survivors by paying tuition to put the...
For €1,600, we can donate one oxygen concentrator to the Bairo Pite Clinic. It helps Tuberculosis patients breath in oxygen when their lungs are affected by th...
"Sea Watch" will function as a floating phone booth just off the Libyan coast, which will be used for maritime search and rescue. To report a boat in distress and...
We want to support the work of "Welcome United 03" with €1000 and thereby make sure that this important project can keep growing in the future.
With your support, we can fund a solar bridge school in Rajasthan, India for a year. With this 30 children who work during the day will benefit from a basic educa...
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With €500, we can help support the more than 1 million people affected by the severe floods and landslides in Myanmar.
We want to build a school for orphans in Uganda. As the walls are going to be built from bricks, the top and bottom panel will be poured in reinforced concrete. T...
With € 1800 we can provide 50 students one year with school meals.
Kijani restores forests and empowers farmers in Kenya. With €500, you enable us to give ten farmers an acre of land each within a degraded forest area, and trai...
The SZ project "Student Lunch" provides children in Munich and the region a free hot meal at school and in childcare facilities. Many pupils from low-income famil...
Since November, "Sea-Watch" has been using a speed boat in the area between the coast of Turkey and the Greek island of Lesbos in ordert o assist refugee boats in...
This project aims to establish a basic social infrastructure for rural communities. The villagers of 5 communities do not have any room for their communal assembl...
Being a ‘hero’ and fighting against oppression within the structures of patriarchal honour cultures requires courage: the courage to question one’s own cult...
Train refugees in Germany to become consultants and give them the opportunity to be financially independent with a secure and fair income.
With €400, we will shoot, edit and produce application photos for the job seekers on an ongoing basis, so that they can present themselves in a professional man...
By supporting Schülerpaten Berlin, you help arrange for individual tutoring for children with a migration background.
With its project "Music for all children", the Adventskalender der guten Werke der Süddeutschen Zeitung supports children in Munich: many children have parents w...
Sea Watch functions as a floating phone booth just off the Libyan coast, which will be used for maritime search and rescue. To report a boat in distress and infor...
Over the next two weeks, we want to collect as much money as possible for the great work of our partner organization CARE in Syria!
During that period, a...
With €800, we will shoot, edit and produce application photos for refugees so that they can present themselves in a professional manner in their cover letters....
We want to support CARE in helping Syrians displaced by the war through humanitarian assistance on the ground.
EUR 800 will fund a photography project in Russia. The money goes towards hiring a trainer to deliver photography workshops (4 days à 8 hours) for 15 women in Mo...
We want to support Runners Without Borders in connecting Israeli and Palestinian youth through common weekly running practice - because sports has the ability to ...
This project gives 50 families in Guatemala access to clean water: for 1.700 € we'll buy 50 water filters.
EUR 1,000 will support three Tibetan refugees each with a one-year scholarship for further studies.
With EUR 370 we can finance an eye exam for a survivor of human trafficking in North Carolina, USA. A further EUR 460 funds a field trip together with other survi...
The network "Stolen childhood" provides for a shelter as well as contact centre for children affected by human trafficking and their families. EUR 470 can guarant...
With €2,500, we can provide 500 mothers-to-be with medical supervision while giving birth.
The SZ project "Student Lunch" provides children in Munich and the region a free hot meal at school and in childcare facilities. Many pupils from low-income famil...
From 2017-2019, the non-profit project 100% HUMAN shows an art exhibition on the significant contribution of LGBTTIQ* to the political development of Europe. The ...
With € 1000, we can fund a three-day training course for twelve pharmacy employees on the ground to teach them the correct use of medication.
With the help of our Photocircle artists, we will create a bee- and insect-friendly herbal area in the 'Bienen Erlebnis Garten' in Frankfurt - Germany. The garden...
Sea Shepherd patrols the Baltic Sea to document illegal nets and report them to local authorities.
With €2,000, we can provide a sustainable wage for the workers of the local companies, as well as travel and subsistence for the students examining existing wel...
With € 1,000 we can enable 20 children to go to school free of charge for one year. The children will receive school education / tuition, writing utensils, exam...
We support Runners Without Borders in connecting Israeli and Palestinian youth through common weekly running practice - because sports has the ability to connect ...
This project gives 50 families in Guatemala access to clean water: for 1.700 € we'll buy 50 water filters.
With Euro 1,000 we can feed over 50 malnourished children in Nairobi for a month.
A get-home-safely pot of money for people at risk on public transport to take a taxi, uber, or equivalent from events. EUR 800 would enable TFI to establish and p...
In 2020 we started our afforestation project in Ethiopia, hoping to plant a total of 600,000 trees by the end of 2024. Within only five years, these trees will ab...
We want to help create livelihoods for people living in extreme poverty in Nepal by empowering them to restore and protect forests on a massive scale.
Our artists are great! They take stunning photos or make beautiful illustrations, and at the same time help us fund worthwhile causes all over the world with their work by waving a part - or in some cases even 100% - of their proceeds.
Here's an overview of all our fantastic artists for you.
At Photocircle, we believe that everyone should do what they do best. That's why we take care of providing you with ever-new and gorgeous art, while our humanitarian and development projects are carried out by professional non-profit organizations, who have the necessary expertise and tools to deliver excellent results in their respective fields of work.
As soon as one of our projects is completely funded, we transfer the entire amount to the respective partner organization. Our project partners will then launch the project and keep us updated on what's happening on the ground.
We haven't met yet? Let's change that. If you'd like to meet us in person and learn more about our work and our products, please make an appointment to visit us. We look forward to meeting you!
With our gallery for contemporary art in the heart of Berlin, we want to grow and develop our idea and showcase a cross-section of Photocircle's most popular and extraordinary artworks.
Your walls are crying for love? We've got you covered. Whether you're looking for art prints from our gallery or want to print your own photos - we'll make sure you live in style. Artists and customers from all over the world swear by our quality and service. The icing on the cake: despite our donations, we offer you prints at very fair prices by avoiding expensive marketing campaigns and focusing on what really matters - making the world a little better in whatever way we can.
We're a handful of people with dozens of personas - CEO, marketing pro and king of numbers; visual and communications designer, but also photo editing magician; front-end hero and expert of all things back-end; communications mouthpiece and non-profit fairy; curator and international talent hunter...
But at the end of the day, one thing unites us all: our vision of a place where we can combine the beauty of art with the beauty of giving back. Curious? Learn more about Thomas Heinrich, Francesco Laddomada, Carlo Trimarchi, Katrin Strohmaier, Angela Capillo and Rosa de Salvo below.
Thomas acquired his business degree in Berlin and Salamanca. After university, he went abroad to work at the Vamos Adelante Foundation in Guatemala. Back in Berlin, Thomas started a job at a management consultancy - however, he felt his true vocation was elsewhere and went travelling in Southeast Asia instead. That's when he came up with the idea to start Photocircle: he didn't want to sell his photos without the people in the pictures profiting as well. Instead, he wanted to sell his pictures in a way that would allow him to give something back to the communities around the people who made them special; and as no such platform existed at the time, he created one himself. Apart from being CEO, Thomas loves to play all kinds of ballgames and has three children.
Francesco studied Computer Science at the University of Cagliari, Sardinia. He is a passionate photographer and speaks eight languages: Italian, English, a bit of German and fluent PHP, Javascript, MYSQL, XHTML and CSS. Being one of eight siblings, Francesco is very sociable and enjoys extensive dinner parties with friends. He loves everything that's creative, except Pizza Hawaii.
Born in Messina, Sicily, Carlo studied Computer Science in Bologna and speaks at least as many languages as Francesco. He is also nuts about comics, which is why he co-created and works at To Be Continued and made the website for Erccomics.
A woman of many words, Katrin studied communications and politics in Berlin, and then devoted herself to the Near East at the London-based School of Oriental and African Studies. Over the years, she's brought home the bacon writing all manner of texts – for newspapers, non-profits and finally for Photocircle. If you don't find her at one of Berlin's many eateries, she's probably out dancing or practicing yoga.
Born in Mayo, Ireland, Laura studied French and English Literature at NUI Galway. After studying, she decided to travel and move around for a few years, living in the USA, Italy, and Spain before coming to Berlin. Apart from all things art and design, Laura loves to play guitar, paint, write, and talk too much at work. She’s especially proud of (and popular for) her penchant for coming up with games to play during lunch breaks.
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