deviantART & Global Giving Valentine's Day Charity Event

deviantART and Global Giving have joined together to make a Valentine's Day where you can not only give art to those who you love, but you can also give support to PH15, a photography project based in Argentina that encourages social inclusion by educating, inspiring and empowering young people through art.

As part of our Philanthropy Project, deviantART will donate $1 for every sale made in our store on February 14th to PH15. Every donation will assist the project in providing photography workshops. Young people attending the workshops will be enabled, acquiring skills to develop self-confidence and improve their job prospects through art.





ph15 is formed by a group of photographers that believe in education through visual arts and the use of art as a means to promote social inclusion.Ph15 offers workshops that possess a completely innovative character, from the didactic nature of the classes to their role as a space where under-served youth can develop their identity and artistic expression.

ph:Photography – Drawing with light
15: The number assigned to identify the slum "Ciudad Oculta", or Hidden City, located at the edge of Buenos Aires.
ph15: A space where a group of kids and adolescents are encouraged to express their personal views through the use of photography.




The project currently works with 30 disadvantaged young people who live in Villa 15, a shantytown in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Most participants' families came to Buenos Aires from rural areas of Argentina or from Paraguay with the hope of finding work. 30% of participants’ parents are unemployed and 40% receive government assistance. The main goal of the project is to integrate the beneficiaries of the program with the rest of the society through visual arts.



ph15 also helps the students to take full ownership of the neighborhood in which they live, to discover new spaces through field trips organized by the Foundation, and to better interact with their surroundings. Through ph15 activities, the students not only leave the neighborhood, but also learn how to move around the city and know places where they usually don’t go or do not have access.






Our Valentine's Day Charity Event is held on PST timezone, and kicks off as soon as the day turns over to 14th Feb in Los Angeles, USA. Any purchases made in our store will count until Midnight PST that same day.

Happy Valentine's Day!