The nonprofit Smiley Faces Foundation works to help children throughout the U.S. who were born with a cleft lip or palate, an impairment that can cause speech and dental problems, among other difficulties. It takes numerous surgeries and a great deal of follow-up care to get these kids to where they need to be, and as you can imagine, it’s a costly endeavor for their families.
If you’re in New York this Tuesday, you can show your support for Smiley Faces, which was established by Adam Bell in 2009 and is allied with the Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery’s Cleft Lip & Palate Clinic at NYU Langone Medical Center. At the Red Bull Space in Soho, there’s going to be a big exhibition featuring portraits of some of the Smiley Faces children taken by A-list photographers—including Peter Lindbergh, Ben Watts, Warwick Saint, and our own Roxanne Lowit, Liz Von Hoene, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Kwaku Alston, and Timothy White.
For more details, check out the event’s Facebook page or the Smiley Faces website.
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