PRINCIPAL: PAUL DENCKLA
I have always been at home in the outdoors whether it is skiing, biking, sailing, riding horses, camping or just taking a walk on the beach. I grew up in a suburb of Philadelphia, went off to boarding school then back to the University of Pennsylvania for four years of training in the basics of "getting a life" and a degree in Architecture. (I was half the way up the stairs of College Hall when I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination). Later I attended Harvard, got an MBA, moved to Chicago and embarked on a 30-year career in the real estate investment management business.
I have since retired, now live in Boston and have a house in Camden, Maine where I am free to enjoy the outdoors. I have four great children whom I am always looking for an excuse to visit. Five grandchildren are part of the draw.
With my love of children and my passion for photography I started the Young Photographers Initiative (aka YPI KIDS) late in 2006. This program let's me use the camera to tap into the energy, imagination and unbridled creativity of kids and it is a total rush.
My first project was with the Maine Children's Cancer Program in 2007. The children were either under treatment for cancer or ones whose cancer was in remission. In my 2008 project I worked with children whose parents were under treatment for cancer at the Massachusetts General Hospital's Cancer Center. The challenges that I faced in that program were very different and more intense at times. It was an amazing experience.
I look forward to being able to continue connecting with these types of truly gifted children through YPI KIDS programs for years to come.
I have always been at home in the outdoors whether it is skiing, biking, sailing, riding horses, camping or just taking a walk on the beach. I grew up in a suburb of Philadelphia, went off to boarding school then back to the University of Pennsylvania for four years of training in the basics of "getting a life" and a degree in Architecture. (I was half the way up the stairs of College Hall when I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination). Later I attended Harvard, got an MBA, moved to Chicago and embarked on a 30-year career in the real estate investment management business.I have since retired, now live in Boston and have a house in Camden, Maine where I am free to enjoy the outdoors. I have four great children whom I am always looking for an excuse to visit. Five grandchildren are part of the draw.
With my love of children and my passion for photography I started the Young Photographers Initiative (aka YPI KIDS) late in 2006. This program let's me use the camera to tap into the energy, imagination and unbridled creativity of kids and it is a total rush.
My first project was with the Maine Children's Cancer Program in 2007. The children were either under treatment for cancer or ones whose cancer was in remission. In my 2008 project I worked with children whose parents were under treatment for cancer at the Massachusetts General Hospital's Cancer Center. The challenges that I faced in that program were very different and more intense at times. It was an amazing experience.
I look forward to being able to continue connecting with these types of truly gifted children through YPI KIDS programs for years to come.