As climate instability reshapes how one of the world’s most planted crops is grown, this project follows farmers in Brazil’s Minas Gerais who are restoring their land through regenerative practice. A Cor do Sol is a photographic and written portrait of Brazil’s regenerative coffee movement, rooted in Minas Gerais and anchored in the life and work of José Elizeu, a small-scale producer near the town of Natércia. On his land, regenerative agriculture isn’t framed as a shift, but as a necessity — a way of farming that restores soil, protects biodiversity, and sustains family life in the face of a changing climate. Rather than illustrating climate change through data or abstraction, the project approaches it through the everyday lives of the people most directly affected — families whose work, routines, and futures depend on the health of the soil.

Situated within the larger context of farming in the Anthropocene, this project asks whether climate instability is forcing Brazil’s coffee farmers to abandon inherited practices — or rediscover older ways of working in closer relationship with the land. Centered in Minas Gerais, it follows producers whose daily labor suggests that regeneration is less a transition than a return, inviting a broader question about how everyday rituals like making coffee connect us to the land that produces them. What does it mean for all of us, who drink coffee every day, to understand how that relationship shapes what ends up in our cup?