Site & Sight: Behind Café Veléz

10 June 2010

Behind Café Veléz

A visit to Nanegal, where Ecuador's Café Veléz grows & purchases select coffee beans. Tried a special limited edition boutique roast from la Doña Magda's farm La Perla Negra- perhaps the best cafecito I've tasted in Ecuador! We're hoping she & Veléz will join Little Places as an exclusive feature product in this fall's Story Baskets!

Photography allows me to meld passions for storytelling, art, and the unraveling of the human condition through a tool I can take anywhere. With a camera, isolated moments are whirled into a fusion of truth and art and sent out into the world telling stories that simply would not have the same effect if told through any other medium. I used to think photography had to fall into one of two distinct categories: fine art or documentary. It seemed that 'artistic photography' forced one to turn reality into abstract, whereas 'photojournalism' made the abstract concrete. I feel pulled toward both realms, and seek to strike a balance between them in my work: to make images through a fine artist’s eye that tell powerful stories of quiet voices across the globe.

10 June 2010

Behind Café Veléz

CAROLINE BENNETT

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10 June 2010

Behind Café Veléz

CAROLINE BENNETT

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"There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."