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For Bentley Magazine

Yes, the car. Basically I rolled in this very Bentley featured on the cover, and inside spread, to a secret walnut grove, where a very selective part of the tree is used for the interior of their cars. The car was shipped from Hong Kong for my shoot. This job was very different then my photojournalism work, and I welcome it. And this was definitely my first car assignment.

Guatemala's food insecurity

While famine rages in Somalia, many other countries face hardships also due to the rise in food prices and climate change. This is very much the case in Guatemala, where farmers can no longer predict the time to plant and harvest production is very small. Heavy rains and long droughts prevent healthy growth of crops, in particular maize, where the cost of corn rose 40% since last year. There is plenty of food in Guatemala, a country where half the population lives in poverty and violence is 4x more then Mexico. However most of the food production is for export (mostly to the US).  Small farmers are especially vulnerable, where half the crop is for family consumption and the other half to sell at the markets. This year, many small farmers have produce low yields of crops mainly due to extreme weather (heavy rains, and long droughts).

Here are two images from my film edit. the scans are low res until i can get home to make higher quality scans, but was anxious to share since i haven't posted on my blog in a few weeks.