On Sunday at 5:30 AM the Zamni Kafe team left to return home. Each of their bags where filled with all their data and instruments they used while here. It was quite amazing how large and heavy the bag where. I have spent the last five weeks with those people, eating, sleeping and hanging out… more →
Author Archive for Hunter Swenson
Coffee, Zanmi Kafe
Ants…
Effaizien Sorting Out Ants. Bois Jolie. 2015. [photo: Hunter Swenson] Scott Summer Holding Ant Collection Tubes. Bois Jolie, 2015. [photo: Hunter Swenson] In 1788 Haiti was responsible for half the worlds coffee supply. Yesterday at Bois Jolie, I spent the morning with the biodiversity team, one part of the Zamni Kafe team. It was extremely… more →
trip logs, Zanmi Foto, Zanmi Kafe
Consent
Evening. At the Zanmi Lasante Orphanage. Cange, Haiti. May, 2015 [photo: Pradip Malde] Today we, Zamni Foto and Zamni Kafe teams, returned from our weekly overnight in Bois Jolie, Haiti. It was a very good trip. It was good because both groups completed a large amount of work. However, what I found more interesting happened… more →
trip logs, Zanmi Foto
Camera Magic
Children playing in the evening, Bois Jolie, Haiti. May, 2015. [photo: Hunter Swenson] I used to think that there is magic in a camera. It took what I saw and reproduced it exactly. As I got older I learned the how of the camera and was shown it was not magic, but science. Thus… more →