Behind The Giving Lens

Colby Brown: Founder, Professional Photographer, Photo Educator
Colby is a professional photographer, photo educator, author and entrepreneur from Denver, Colorado. Specializing in landscape, travel and humanitarian photography, he has been fortunate to have worked all over the world, in pursuit of capturing the beauty of life on this planet. In 2010 he co-founded Lepwpa Haiti, an organization that provides support services on the ground to small local NGOs doing phenomenal work in that island nation of Haiti. Colby’s passion for photography and teaching helps propel him to hold photography workshops, digital editing classes and webinars throughout the year, in various countries around the globe. In 2011, he founded The Giving Lens. He lives in Colorado with his wife (Sarah), son (Jack) and dog (Denali).
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Kate Siobhan Havercroft: Staff Writer and Public Relations
Kate is a writer, photographer, and activist from Vancouver, Canada. As a published writer, she specializes in travel and awareness writing, as well as music journalism. As a freshman photographer, she is exploring portraiture, as well as street photography. She also shoots weddings in the Vancouver area and abroad. She’s traveled to Africa, Asia, Europe, Central America, the Caribbean, and soon, South America. She’s volunteered on nearly all of her trips, from building homes, to playing with orphans, to holding HIV positive babies, and more. She is a advocate for human rights, social justice, and poverty elimination both in her hometown, and internationally. She is a team leader with Habitat for Humanity alongside her husband, Peter. When not traveling, writing, or photographing she enjoys surfing, reading, and a killer cup of coffee.
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Casey McCallister: The Web Guy
Casey is a photographer and Web developer from Denver, Colorado. In 2007, he moved to the mountains from the flat plains of Texas and immediately went to work capturing the beautiful mountains and how people enjoy them. Photography has taken him to many places around the world and he uses the opportunity of taking photos to allow others a chance to see the world through his eyes. In his free time, Casey is working on climbing all of Colorado’s 14ers and photographing the climbs along the way. He also dreams of climbing in the majestic Himalayan mountains one day. When he is not drinking coffee, he is probably drinking tea and driving with his girlfriend down a road to nowhere in particular with the windows down to a Ryan Adams song.
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Andy Lee: The Design Guy and Marketing Assistant
Andy is a multi disciplined award-winning creative director from Pembrokeshire in Wales, UK.
He specializes in video and photography and also creates brand identities for many large corporations. He has been fortune to travel extensively with his job and has so far visited Ethiopia, Tanzania, Bangladesh, India and China, where he has created numerous short films for a variety of charity organisations. Andy is a self confessed workaholic and passionate family man, when not working he can often be found at sea on his boat with his wife Kathryn and daughters, Georgia and Martha.
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