Beautiful Coffee Nepal executed a project
to shoot family photos of about 200 coffee producers and their families
affected by the devastating earthquake of 2015 in partnership with Baravom Photo
Studio, a Korean NGO mainly photographing the disabled. The project targeted the
members and their families of Coffee Cooperative Union Sindhupalchok , and executed
from 9th to 12th of April, 2017.
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| A photographer taking a picture in a coffee pulping center |
Coffee Cooperative Union Sindhupalchok
has been working with Beautiful Coffee Korea since 2013 and Beautiful Coffee Nepal since 2014. However, due to the earthquake,
the members of Coffee
Cooperative Union Sindhupalchok had to suffer from loss of their close relatives
and family members. During the past 2 years, the recovery of social and
economic conditions in Shindhupalchok
has been slowly improved. But, on the other hand, some people are still having
a hard time to deal with the mental aftermath by this time of the year. This context
gave Beautiful Coffee Nepal motivation to initiate family photo project.
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| After taking their family photo |
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| Kids holding their family photos |
During the execution of the project, the
coffee pulping centers turned temporary photo studios were crowded with many
people fully dressed up for a photo shoot. It was red colour all over because
Nepali women usually wear red dress on the occasion of celebrations, festivals, etc. Married couples came. Young mothers carrying their babies came. Old men and
women with their grandchild came and so on. We could see all kinds of families. They
looked happy seeing and talking over the pictures of each other’s. Or some of
them were on the edge of tears for some reason. It seemed that shooting a photo
together made an opportunity for people to refresh themselves. And that was
what we hoped to do.