Charles Traub- The MFA Director at SVA has a wonderful list of do's and don'ts titled, "Maxims from the chair." After hearing about it through Alex Soth's blog a year ago, I have revisted the maxims for laughter and also for serious inspiration. One of the don'ts is, "Don't photograph indigent people, particularly in foreign lands."
A few months back I travelled to Bahia, Brazil and had the opportunity to photograph some wonderful coffee farmers in a small coffee farm in Utinga. The need to include the portraits of the farmers as a direct extension of the landscape series was absolutely necessary. I found the freedom, poise, and strength of the people there intoxicating and mysterious. At the same time the elements of style that the farmers possessed was infinite.'t photograph indigent people, particularly
in foreign
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