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‘We Are What We Live’ - Breathtaking photographs from Lavazza’s 2017 calendar

Award-winning photographer Denis Rouvre has created a photoseries exploring the relationship between humans and their environment for the 2017 Lavazza calendar.

Titled ‘We Are What We Live’, it is the third installment of Lavazza’s 'Earth Defenders’ trilogy, celebrating champions of sustainability across the globe.

For each month, a portrait is placed next to a landscape image, showing the symbiosis between 12 people and the land they live in and protect.

Last year the calendar focused on ‘Earth Defenders’ in South and Central America, and Africa the year before that. This year focuses on Asia.

In a picture taken in Indonesia, the magical waters of Lake Tanjung seem to be mirrored in the lips of a coffee grower. Another shot in India shows thousands of Kotagiri bees reflected in the marks and wrinkles of an elderly hunter of multi floral forest honey.

Denis Rouvre explored how the sacrifices and dedication of these earth defenders make it possible to improve the living conditions of the local communities, including threats of climate change.

He said: “During the trip to Southeast Asia, I clearly felt that the environment there directly forges the lives of these men and women who work and protect their land every day.

“The environment forges their character and models their faces.

“It is this symbiotic relationship between people and nature that I wanted to explore in the 2017 Lavazza Calendar, through the formal juxtaposition of two images: on one hand, the person’s portrait, without any frills or artifices of any kind, and on the other the environment in which they live and work.”