Content: More than ten years of research in Asia, Africa, Central and South America was done for creating the documentary photography on the world of coffee, starting in 2002.
The pictures tell stories of the lifes of the coffee farm workers; show methods of sustainable coffee farming; and teach about sowing, harvesting and processing, documented in ten countries: Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala, India, China, Tanzania, Indonesia, Columbia, Ethiopia and El Salvador. In black and white photography, farmers, pickers, young and old people, men, women and children are portrayed along with pictures of amazing landscapes from those coffee regions. Ten different countries, in different regions of the world – but the life of coffee farmers is much alike – as Sebastião Salgado mentioned in an interview.
Photography: Sebastião Salgado, born in 1944, Airmorés, Brazil, abandoned his career as an economist and turned to photography instead. He is well known for his documentary photographies as well as his photojournalism. He has traveld in over 120 countries for his projects and most of these have appeared in press publications, books and exhibitions. Based on the idea of his wife Lélia Deluiz Wanick Salgado, together they founded Instituto Terra in order to transform a completely degraded Atlantic Forest wasteland into a functioning, restored Forest again.
Selection: The pictures show the dignity of the people growing, harvesting and processing the product although for the western wold perspective they seem to live in conditions of poverty. Also, the pictures speak of the great dedication of the photographer in order to tell their stories. Hopefully such kind of work can contribute to our choice of coffee beans in order to promote sustainable farming as well as to enjoy socially fair produced coffee.
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