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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

EG Couple Head To NYC For A Day To Help

Odessa Cozzolino and Phil Nutting spent Monday raking muck and serving food in Rockaway, New York.

Last Sunday (Nov. 4) Odessa Cozzolino read a friend's post on Facebook describing the hardships being endured by those hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy in the Far Rockaway section of Queens in New York City. The post, which linked to this blog, struck a chord. "I read it, re-posted it, and couldn't get it out of my head," said Cozzolino, a Spring Street resident who is a freelance photographer. She decided she had to go there and see what she could do. Some friends offered to help with after-school child care (she and her husband, Phil Nutting have two elementary school-age children), Nutting re-arranged his Monday schedule and by 3 p.m. Sunday they were at BJ's buying supplied. "We used a 'free 60-day membership' offer to buy toilet paper…

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

EG Woman’s Website Becomes Internet Sensation

Mybodygallery.com - a place to see what real women look like - had more than 8 million hits last month alone

When EG resident Odessa Cozzolino became a professional photographer two years ago, she noticed a trend. Women - practically all the women - were very hard on themselves when it came to their bodies. But Cozzolino, looking at these same women through her camera lens, saw something quite different. She saw normal, beautiful bodies. And she realized that these same women had no idea what they really looked like. Cozzolino, who lives in the Hill & Harbor district of EG with her husband and two young children, thought there had to be a website where women could see what other women - real women, not photo-shopped magazine models - actually looked like. Nope. “I figured it already existed, but when I found out it didn’t, I kind of decided I had…

Kbenj

5:09 pm on Tuesday, September 20, 2011

This is really terrific. Great stuff Odessa!   more ›

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