Giving Compass' Take:

• Food Tank highlights photographer, Luis Fabini, and discusses his experiences documenting crops across Peru and his future plans for his project, Harvest, to connect farmers worldwide. 

• How can these images empower people to support their local farmers and food systems?

• Here's how social media is helping connect farmers in Africa. 

In a new project, Harvest, photographer Luis Fabini hopes to connect farmers throughout the globe by shining a spotlight on their lives when harvesting the world’s food. Inspired by the connection between people, land, and food, Fabini aims to create a visual expedition that documents rituals, celebrations, work, and community—all organized around annual harvests.

Since 2018, Fabini has been photographing harvests across Peru including potato harvests in the Peruvian Andes, salt harvests in Maras, and corn harvest in the Colca Canyon. Fabini plans to document chili pepper harvests in Mexico, saffron harvest in India, and cacao harvest in Guatemala. The project will require another three years traveling the world to photograph all the people and the land producing food for global consumers, says Fabini, but the journey will be worth it—allowing Fabini to share his encounters with these farmers to the world. “I travel on foot, by horse, by car, and I share food with people, and in return they allow me to capture their lives,” Fabini tells Food Tank.

Read the full article on connecting farmers worldwide by Preetha Palasuberniam at Food Tank.