Below are all the contributors to the library, listed in alphabetical order.

	Shan  Ballard	images
No Image Available	Lives in Newton Stewart (Galloway) with her Partner and our 2 children Calladan and Cara, and is fast approaching her 35th birthday. She is a member of SCND and the SSP for which she is branch Secretary. Shan was extremely pleased to be asked to take part in the Images project as she is on benefits and lives in a very rural area and is disabled. As well as wanting to learn about photography, she also wanted to be able to highlight rural poverty and the things that affect everyday life.

	Joan  Bell	images
	There is no information available for this contributor.

	Claire  Charkow	images
	Claire is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art and specialised in Sculpture. She is currently working for Dumfries and Galloway Coalition of Disabled People. She took part in the Poverty Alliance ‘Images’ project as she has a strong interest in photography. The image of the empty beer cans discarded daily in the same place struck her as a poignant reminder of the poverty in present day society.

	Harry  Dalziel	images
	Is from Dumfries and has lived there since he was born. When he became old enough he worked on farms. He found the work hard but very rewarding. When he left school he went to agricultural college which gaining an insight into the inner workings of farming he later became an agricultural contractor hiring himself out to farm’s which needed extra labour at busy times. Three year’s ago he had to stop work due to illness.

	Michael  Ferns	images
	Is aged 62, widowed, with a grown up family. He started school in the Southside of Glasgow, known as the Gorbals. He is an active member of the Govan poverty group, Braendam Link and enjoys writing – particularly about his childhood days.

	Brendan  Gallagher	images
	Is forty four years of age, from Falkirk and born of Irish and Scottish parentage. He went to St Andrews Primary School and St Mungo’s High School before working as a coachbuilder which he eventually left, due to ill health. He is a married man with three children and living on benefits, which he feels is never easy but he has never felt impoverished. "Poverty to me was images of Africa, of starving children, barefoot and crying. I soon learned though, that poverty has many faces and riches cannot always be measured in silver."

	Anita  Govan	images
	Is an innovator, a passionate and committed advocate of the individual rights to self expression, she performances by mixing her poetry off page with or without visual, musical and audio references, she creates an exciting and vibrant mix of creative interplay between live performance and spoken word. As a facilitator, she is interested in inspiring and releasing the individuals’ creative potential and ‘voice’. Facilitator, writing workshops Glasgow, Director of launch performance.

	Brian  Hazlett	images
No Image Available	Is am 42 years old and has lived in Glasgow all his life and is a director of the Possil & Milton Forum on Disability. He has always been interested in photography and has done a couple of photography classes. Brain’s other main pastime is swimming, for which he has won many awards. He also attends a creative writing class at the Forum.

	Jo  Hodges	images
No Image Available	Is a lens based visual artist based in Dumfries and Galloway. She has worked on a wide range of innovative community art projects and public art projects across Scotland using film, photography and animation. The work produced from one of these projects was the overall winner of the National Ken Loach Film Competition in 2003. Her current work involves exploring new media interventions and site specific projections and at present she is working collaboratively on a commission to produce a temporary public art installation for this years Spring Fling art event in Dumfries and Galloway. Facilitator photography workshops Dumfries.

	Robert  Howard	images
	Was brought up on the island of Mull and after leaving school studied photography in Glasgow, before moving to the southwest of Scotland 21 years ago. His Baha’i religion greatly influences his work helping him to love, respect and have concern for all mankind, especially the poor. Whilst order is essential in world affairs, he considers the extremes of wealth and poverty unacceptable. He suggests there needs to be education to limit these extremes and increased moral education to encourage empathy and voluntary sharing.

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