Grant Faint is a  Canadian photographer who has been shooting stock full-time  since 1984 with The Image Bank and Gettyimages. Having started his career as a TV Newscameraman in Vancouver he has traveled to over 80 countries in the past 32 years.  In 2004 he began  a video project to mark his 50th birthday, a retrospective  DVD  showing him at work around the globe and highlighting  450 of his best images. The film  SOGNARE which is italian  for to dream quickly became a fundraising  tool for an orphan’s program in Tanzania, children who have lost parents due to HIV/AIDS. The film has been shown publicly  in five cities around the world with all ticket sales going to a Canadian NGO working on the ground in Tanzania. The money is used to help feed ,cloth, and school the orphans.

Faint has begun work on a second film this past year, CREDERE  or to believe. So far he has filmed animal life in Tanzania and Kenya and recently was in Burkino Faso and Niger to document a Nomadic festival in the southern Sahara .The beauty and wisdom of nine african countries will be featured in this film. “Using the best of africa visually to help with it’s worst problem seemed the right way to go ”  says Faint.  Also Grant’s website   www.grantfaint.com is a fundraising device.  Viewers of the website can offer a donation for any of the images displayed , prints  13x19 are then shipped anywhere in the world at the photographer’s expense.

IMAGES FOR ORPHANS  is the name Grant has chosen to underline  the simple  connection between his work and the need overseas.

As well, the photographer in 2005  worked with expatriots from the war torn country of Sierra Leone  in West Africa to build a school for 500  refugee children there.

So why this interest?  Faint had wanted to join the American organization the Peace Corp or it’s equal in Canada   in 1972 after graduating from collage, however his skill set wasn’t needed.  With his  present efforts the circle  now seems complete.