Stories from the Coffee Trail: Stories from a Sustainable Harvest

Portfolio in progress. Images by Noah Jackson. Copyright 2009-2010.

Images from Working with Coffee Farmers Sumatra, Java, Papua, Suluwesi, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

Somewhere in a distant forest fragment an orangutan juvenile swings through the canopy. A farmer watches it. Night falls. A fig tree sways and moves while non-native vegetation dances around it. What will persist? What will not? What can we change? How can we live among forests, people, and land on this earth island? I made this image while reflecting upon this on a forest ridgeline on the island of Sulawesi on the edge of small coffee farm. Groves of bamboo and native vegetation danced. Moonlight from the sky danced in and reflected off the forest far below. I spotted one lone tree fig tree that stood on another ridge below me. I setup my camera, opened my camera shutter and, while down near the tree I painted the tree with light from my headlamp to eliminates the detail of the tree. The clouds, light, and vegetation shifted during this long exposure as I stood next to the tree, looking skyward, at the light and at the shadows dancing above me, and as the last calls of wildlife from the day began to fade.
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