Retake Inc

We want to help ease the burden of losing what was most important to those who have survived disasters, wars, and conflict-zones. We aim to create new keepsakes and framed memories by offering free photos and photoshoots to those who have already been through so much.

We partner with organizations that are in place and working within communities that we can offer our services to. From disaster relief and community centers to refugee and immigrant services, we connect with groups and people who introduce us to those who have survived disasters and conflict. With utmost respect and sensitivity, we hear their stories and create unique photoshoots that produce beautiful photographs for them to have as new keepsakes and family heirlooms.

We meet with the survivors, we have the photoshoot, we edit the photographs, we print and frame them, and we deliver the final products to our recipients.

Retake is in a position to provide those who have survived wars and disasters with new photographs and keepsakes because we were founded by a photographer and visual journalist who has years of experience with nonprofits and working internationally. Our board and staff all have nonprofit backgrounds and working with people from other background's and countries. In addition, we understand the importance of the following values: empathy, cultural sensitivity, listening, and being respectful.

We also have a small team that keeps our overhead costs very low, so more of the funds raised go towards the recipients of our free photoshoots.

We have been building relationships with organizations that have chapters and offices in different areas of the United States that we can work with as the need arises; we have spent the most time along the East Coast primarily in Washington, DC where many national organizations have their headquarters and in North Carolina where our base is. We will continue to grow in key areas where refugee communities are and where disasters in the United States happen regularly (the East Coast and Gulf Coast for hurricanes and the West Coast for earthquakes and wildfires).

Our next step will be international recipients in the Caribbean who have survived major storms for disaster survivor photoshoots.

And eventually globally for displaced people, refugees, and people who have been through a disaster.