Memorial Day: Honor the Fallen, Remember the Living
Today is Memorial Day! I’d Like to remember that RTP was founded in 1941 by Josephine Herick with the mission to help our wounded soldiers using photography as a unique form of therapy. In...
View ArticleGiving Thanks to Our Fallen Heroes this Memorial Day
Photo: Memorial Tribute by Cindy Seigle From The White House Blog – May 25, 2013 In this week’s address, President Obama commemorates Memorial Day by paying tribute to the men and women in uniform...
View ArticleLET’S COMMIT TODAY TO HELPING VETERANS IN-NEED
Photo of Maureen McNeil, JHP Executive Director and Brooklyn VA Participant Felicia Foster Photo @RickGerrity By Maureen McNeil – Memorial Day Weekend 2014 As we celebrate veterans as heroic young...
View ArticleNBC Today Show features JHP’s Brooklyn VA Program on July 4th!
Photo by Calogero Bongiovanni Picture Perfect: Veterans Turn to Photography By Jackie Augustine – July 4, 2014 NBC Today Show “Hope to it” segment on The Josephine Herrick Project and our program at...
View ArticleJosephine Herrick Project @ Hofstra Morning Wake Up Call
Listen to a great radio interview about our Veteran Photography Programs. Camille Tokerud, professional photographer and JHP Volunteer Photographer was interviewed by Eric Dehm, host and producer of...
View ArticleJHP launches first Veteran’s Program in NJ at Unique Photo
By Jackie Augustine – September 30, 2014 Are you a Veteran and interesting in learning digital photography for FREE? Join the Josephine Herrick Project (JHP) for an 8-session introduction to digital...
View ArticleNew JHP Veterans Program at St. Francis College Announced
On Veterans Day, Maureen McNeil, Executive Director of Josephine Herrick Project announced the start of a free photography program for veterans at St. Francis College in Brooklyn...
View ArticleJHP Celebrates: Veterans on Veteran’s Day
Josephine Herrick Project is thinking of our veterans on Veteran’s Day. Thank you for your service all over the world. Thank you to our veterans who serve as teaching artists by volunteering their...
View ArticleJHP Honors Veteran Sheridan Dean
As a volunteer organization serving veterans for nearly seventy-five years, I wanted to report on something dear to JHP for Veterans Day so I picked up the phone and called Sheridan Dean. One of our...
View ArticleThen & Now: JHP Celebrates Evolution
More specifically, we are celebrating the evolution of our beloved organization. In 1941, Josephine Herrick founded Volunteer Service Photography (VSP), an organization that sent photographers into VA...
View ArticleWORLD WAR II Photographs by Josephine Herrick
The Josephine Herrick Project is a War Baby born in 1941 with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In honor of the organization’s 75th anniversary, we have published the first collection of Herrick’s WWII...
View ArticleJHP Enhances Lives at the Portland Vet Center
The Portland Art Museum hosted a summer event on June 16, 2016 celebrating military veterans, including sixty 8 x 10 photographs taken by nine veterans in the Josephine Herrick Project program at the...
View ArticleThe Gift that Keeps on Giving
Photo by: Linda C. Navy Veteran Linda Catlett recently sent a thank you letter to JHP Executive Director, Maureen McNeil, for the amazing opportunity to learn photography at the Bronx Vet Center on...
View ArticleNew Haven Vet Center Exhibit
On February 21, 2017, photographs taken by New Haven based veterans were hung for the local community to view. An opening reception in the bright white gallery at Gateway Community College offered an...
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