Justice and Coffee
Justice and Coffee
It is funny how you just have those things that draw your heart to want to do something creative and expressive that will show someone how an issue of justice isn't something we should take as a pinch of salt or in the case of this latest photoshoot, a shot of coffee. I thrive off the chance to do something that will share a story or a message. Promote something important or generally generate freedom for others. I am a supporter of stopping human trafficking after doing research for my Masters and in youth and community work. I research alot and from my own journey since the first time I heard Daniel Beddingfield talking about human trafficking. I knew I had to find everyway I could do something. I was part a part of silent marching accross a small new zealand town, part of events and Including having the chance to work with young women who were caught up in this injustice taking advantage of for the bodies. After experiencing this I was drawn to this amazing charity called blue bear coffee co not just my love for coffee but because I wanted to support the work that BlueBear is doing to bring freedom to those trapped not just sex trafficking, but, also forced labour, domenstic servitude, criminal exploitation and child exploitation. Theres so much that we don’t realise including the numbers still in salavery is still the highest it has ever been with 40 million people globally are being affected by modern day slavery. As a young person I lived and breathed the drive to want to bring justice to situations but only one person can only do so much.
How did this all start you ask well let’s not go right to the view beginning because that would be me retelling the whole 16-year-old Rosie's dream but let me go back to April 2020, I was wandering around YouTube looking for a different seen in terms of churches because during in lockdown, I was a cereal churchgoer, and I came across a service at Holy Trinity Clapham. During the service, they interview two different people that were part of human trafficking abolishing charities and one of these charities is Blue Bear Coffee Co. This Charity produces great quality ethically sourced coffee across many locations and 100% of their profits go towards supporting Charities like IJM, Justice & Care and Unseen. I decided that I had to find out more, so I went searched them up on Instagram and ordered myself some coffee. It all started from there and I knew I wanted to use my creative photography skills to help support Blue Bear and also my social media that I had established with other charities and organsations’s in the past.
Break Down of A photoshoot set up
Blue Bear was advertising for a summer intern for students I got a reply, and they say they would love to look into how they could use my talents in the future. Around the end of November, Bryn from Blue Bear Messaged me on Instagram. He asked if I would like to take some photos of them and of course, I jumped at the chance. I had my own blue bear travel mug already and they sent me over some of their coffee and Christmas chocolate made by Tony Chocolonely to photograph. I decided that making it wintery and Christmassy would be the best Idea using so it was early for the Christmas decorations but I wanted them to feature in some of the photography this meant that I decided it was time to put up the tree.
This was one of many shots I would end up doing for them including producing reels and videos to help increase the capacity that they could do as a charity.
Heres a shoot breakdown from one of the shoots I did for them: Blue Bear Christmas 2020 Shoot.
