City College of San Francisco photography students participated in a nationwide effort to retouch photographs damaged by natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina as part of organization “Operation Photo Rescue”.

The photography students  Soklan Nou, Kari Orvik, Morgan Shidler and Kok Leong “Larry” Wong participated as part of their PHOTO 60B “Intermediate Photoshop” class taught by Erika Gentry. Operation Photo Rescue is an online volunteer community dedicated to restoring photographs damaged by natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and others. Also see student work from 2007.

About Operation Photo Rescue

Insurance can replace homes, furniture and automobiles in time of need. However, photographs, which are important pieces of a family’s history, are unprotected. Operation Photo Rescue (OPR) is a volunteer network of professional photojournalists and amateur digital photographers, graphic designers, image restoration artists and others. OPR’s mission is to repair photographs damaged by unforeseen circumstances such as house fires and natural disasters at no cost to the people who own them.

For more information visit: http:// www.operationphotorescue.com