about us
Our mission
the compassionate eye foundation was built from the heart
Founded six years ago by Robert Kent, a successful stock and commercial photographer, Compassionate Eye Foundation is a unique and successful entity based on the idea that the creative community and its supporters could and want to make a difference in the world.
Seeing and feeling a need for a way to give back, Kent approached his representative at Getty Images with the idea of a foundation based on a clear mission and a unique royalty based funding model. The idea he felt was a no brainer.
On one day a year, he and many others would shoot a series of images, those images would be submitted to Getty Images and a portion of the royalties from their sale would go to fund the foundation’s mission. A win-win situation was launched.
Now six years later, and host of shoots and projects in six countries, Compassionate Eye Foundation continues to work toward its goals with the belief that it is better to get a hand up than a hand out.
