Here’s the thing: someone has to pick the route, show up early, and get a room full of strangers talking like old friends. This year that job got a lot easier (we took the contest headaches off your plate). If that someone sounds like you, let’s get you signed up.
Why We Walk
This isn’t just a photo walk with a charity attached. It’s a worldwide fundraiser, powered by photographers for Springs of Hope Kenya, a nonprofit home caring for children who’ve lost their parents or survived abuse and neglect. Many arrive malnourished, with no one left to care for them. Springs of Hope gives them a safe family, an education, and a real shot at the future they deserve. As a leader, your walk is what makes that possible in your city.
What It Means to Be A leader
Your city, your neighborhood, your favorite three blocks. You know the route worth walking. That part’s entirely your call.
It takes a few minutes, and that’s the last piece of paperwork you’ll think about until walk day. Sign Up
We’ll hand you a walk page and a set of social assets. You bring the crowd, we’ll help you spread the word.
Leaders told us the contest was the most exhausting part of the job. We listened! For 2026, it’s gone from your to-do list. Everyone submits to one central gallery, and Scott will personally pick 10 finalists and one winner.
Show Your Spirit with our:
Here’s your chance to look cool during your walk, and let other walkers in your city know you’re a walker for Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk®. Whether you prefer a standard t-shirt, a tank top, or a hoodie we’ve got you covered!
The best part? 100% of the profits from the shirt sales will go directly to help out the kids at the Springs of Hope Orphanage. What better reason to purchase than that?
Picture a casual photography event where photographers gather, usually in a downtown area or trendy part of town. They walk around, take photos, enjoy each other’s company, and support a good cause. After the walk, participants can enter their best photo into a friendly contest.
Springs of Hope Kenya is an incredible nonprofit that provides food, shelter, education, and love to orphaned children. It’s more than just a place to live—it’s a place where kids can feel safe, supported, and empowered to build a better future.
We walk to help raise funds and awareness for their mission. Every $1 donation—and every step you take—helps provide real support for the kids who call Springs of Hope home.
We are so thankful for those of you that take the initiative to lead a walk! This event would not be the success that it is without the volunteers who organize and scout locations for the walkers. To become a walk leader simply click here and complete an application. Once the application has been submitted, you will receive an email with instructions for setting up your walk.
Our 1st step is to get our leaders on board and get a good selection of walks up and running for you, our walkers, to select. Once we feel we have enough to get started the “Find a Walk” tab will show up in the navigation bar at the top of the page.
In order for all walkers to have the same opportunities to capture images during the walk, the following rules must be followed:
Yes, absolutely! Leaders submit right alongside everyone else. There’s no separate leader category anymore, just one central gallery, so your shot gets the same shot at being picked as every other entry.
Yes, of course! There are many larger cities that would definitely benefit from having multiple walks. We do suggest that before you start a walk you double check to make sure that you are choosing either a different time of day or location as any existing walks. This will prevent any competition between walks and give our walkers a variety of options.
Why yes, yes there is! Everyone that registers and participates in a walk is eligible to enter to win some amazing prizes from our industry related sponsors. To find out what those prizes are check back here often, as we will post those as soon as they are confirmed. But, we can promise they will be great!
Absolutely not! The contest is just a fun addition to the walk that allows us to pay it forward to our walkers for participating in this event that allows us to give so generously to the Springs of Hope Orphanage in Kenya.
