Brett Simison

Photographer

www.brettsimison.com

Green Coffee

Location: Vergennes, Vermont, USA

Nationality: USA

Biography: www.brettsimison.com // Editorial, Documentary, Portrait // Brett Simison is an editorial, documentary, portrait, and commercial photographer. Assignments have taken him across the United States, Europe, Mexico, Asia, and Central and South... read on

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A shrine of the Virgin Mary adorns a coffee fermentation and processing tank at the Huatusco Coffee Cooperative, Veracruz, Mexico.

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Workers process a late night coffee delivery at the loading dock of the Huatusco Coffee Cooperative, Veracruz, Mexico.

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Coffee farmer Rolando Cesa holds a coffee plant at his organic coffee plant nursery, Huatusco Coffee Co-op, Veracruz, Mexico.

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Coffee farmer Victor Garcia, Huatusco Coffee Co-op, Veracruz, Mexico.

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A worker rakes coffee beans to dry in the tropical sun at Greenwell Farms, Kona, Hawaii.

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Coffee beans dry in the sun at Victor Garcias' farm, part of the Huatusco Coffee Co-op, Veracruz, Mexico.

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Miguel Garcia and his wife on their coffee farm, Huatusco, Veracruz, Mexico

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Stacks of bagged coffee await processing and delivery at the Beneficio Palín dry coffee mill in Guatemala.

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Coffee cherries on coffee trees, Greenwell Farms, Kona, Hawaii.

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Finca Dos Marias, a coffee plantation in the San Marcos region of Guatemala, has been owned and operated by the same family for three generations.

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Weighing the coffee harvest, Finca Dos Marias, San Marcos, Guatemala.

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Banana trees on the Big Island of Hawaii, Kona district.

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Sunset silhouettes of people and palm trees over the Pacific at Pu'Uhonua O Honaunau (City of Refuge) National Historic Park, Kona, Hawaii.

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Coffee plant nursery, Finca Dos Marias, San Marcos, Guatemala.

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Students at the school run by Finca Dos Marias, San Marcos, Guatemala.

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School boys playing soccer at the school run by Finca Dos Marias, San Marcos, Guatemala.

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Chapel, Finca Dos Marias, San Marcos, Guatemala

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AJ Rendon of Tully's Coffee entertains a Jackson's Chameleon (Chamaeloeo jacksonii), a non-native species of chameleon introduced to Hawaii in 1972 from Africa.

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Coffee cherries, Greenwell Farms, Kona, Hawaii.

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Morning mist shrouds the ridges of mountains surrounding Lake Atitlán, Guatemala.

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The town of San Pablo La Laguna on the shores of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala.

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Mayan child, Chajul Coffee Co-op, Quiché, Guatemala.

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Mayan workers, Chajul Coffee Co-op, Quiché, Guatemala.

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Processed coffee beans await quality control testing, Coffee Lab, Chajul Coffee Co-op, Quiché, Guatemala.

Public Story

Green Coffee

Credits: brett simison

Date of Work: 12/31/69 - Ongoing

Updated: 05/01/18

Location: Guatemala, Mexico, Hawaii

Archived as: Agriculture, Photography

These images are from a project examing the impact of the Fair Trade Coffee movement on the farming communities in Latin America and Hawaii. Photographed at the Huatusco Coffee Co-Operative in Huatusco, Veracruz, Mexico; Finca Dos Marias, a coffee plantation in the volcanic San Marcos region of Guatemala; the Beneficio Palín dry coffee mill in Guatemala; the Chajul Coffee Co-op, Quiché, Guatemala; and Greenwell Farms in Kona, Hawaii.