A.M. Homes, Photo: Robert Nethery

Robert Nethery photographed author A.M. Homes for Wishful Thinkers, a limited edition book & gallery show at Milk Gallery. Proceeds from sales of the book & prints exhibited at Milk Gallery benefited FINCA International.

Wishful Thinkers is a project by Blackstar, a new design collective founded by creative director Marie Suter and photographer Viki Forhsee, to benefit the Foundations for International Community Assistance. FINCA International's mission is to provide financial services to low-income entrepreneurs in an effort to help create jobs, build assets and improve standards of living. Started in 1984, the microcredit organization reaches nearly a quarter of a million clients in more than twenty countries. FINCA International lends primarily to women in accordance with the belief that the surest and most direct way to improve the welfare of the world's children is to bolster their mother's ability to care for them.

-Melinda Anderson

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Wishful Thinkers - A.M. Homes & Jennifer Venditti

According to Wikipedia, The Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA International) is a non-profit, microfinance organization, founded by John Hatch in 1984. Sometimes referred to as the "World Bank for the Poor" and a "poverty vaccine for the planet", FINCA is the innovator of the village banking methodology in microcredit and is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modern day microfinance.



Milk Gallery is hosting "Wishful Thinkers", a photography show of 50 Inspirational Women, to benefit FINCA International tonight, between 7 to 10pm.

Filmmaker & Casting Director Jennifer Venditti is amongst the 50 Inspirational Women photographed for "Wishful Thinkers". Her debut film, Billy The Kid, won numerous awards, including the Jury Prize at the South by Southwest Festival.



Author A.M. Homes was photographed by Robert Nethery for Wishful Thinkers. A.M. Homes is the author of the novels, This Book Will Save Your Life, Music for Torching , The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers , and Jack , as well as the short-story collections, Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects , the travel memoir, Los Angeles: People, Places, and the Castle on the Hill , and the artist's book Appendix A. I've written before how much the books & short stories of A.M. Homes mean to me.

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