Children gather among the busy belongings of their grandfathers’ shack.
The simple wood-frame house is home to one of the only families in the village
not receiving remittances from relatives in the United States.
This influx of foreign income is the cause of an increasingly widening
social disparity in El Merendón .



Artist Bio:

Laura Alex Frye-Levine is a media artist and social ecologist.
She works primarily in rural coffee-producing communities in El Merendón Honduras
on issues of local livelihood and protected areas conservation.
Her 2008 documentary film “Export”- a first-person account of a rural
coffee producing community in a remote Honduran cloud forest,
has screened at environmental conferences in Nairobi, Boston, and Beijing.