Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/01

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Subject: [Leica] Salgado and Illy Coffee (For Philippe)
From: rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)
Date: Sun Oct 1 14:44:17 2006
References: <6.2.5.6.2.20061001223209.03245ac0@screengang.com> <C145ACDC.163D3%bd@bdcolenphoto.com>
 
I don't know more about Salgado, but it's true the company that sponsors 
him, Illy, is having fair trade deals with exacly such coffee cooperatives 
in Brasil.
Didier


>Not to beat a dead horse - ah, what the hell, they can't bite or kick ;-) -
>but what major documentarian hasn't done commissioned work of one kind or
>another? Good God, Eugene Richards has done ad campaigns for Nike and Levis,
>Mary Ellen Mark regularly does commercial work, and on and on. And perhaps
>I'm delusional at this point on a rainy Sunday, but wasn't Salgado an
>economist with some sort of Latin America coffee growers cooperative or some
>such?
In reply to: Message from rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig) ([Leica] Salgado and Illy Coffee (For Philippe))
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