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The group that travelled to the Northern Inca Empire

The FairMail Peru team has just returned from an epic photography trip into the Northern Andes. In the area around the northern capital of the former Inca empire the teenagers travelled together with a group of Italian, American and Dutch photography enthusiasts looking for the best images of local beauty.

This 4-minute video gives a good impression of their visit to former Inca ruins, waterfalls, thermal baths and an authentic bull market.

Click here if you want to travel with the locals too and join us on one of our next photography trips.

Juan Gabtiel showing his pictures to the local youth

On Saturday the 20th of May we are organizing an information session about FairMail’s photography trips in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The program starts at 4.30 pm.

During the event we will explain the concept of the FairMail Photography trips in general and go into detail about the specific upcoming trips. Also you can ask any questions you might have and meet other interested participants who might be coming along.

Registration for the event is required and possible via this link.

FairMail photography trip to Chachapoyas

In January 5 of the Peruvian FairMail teenagers set off to the Peruvian cloud forest.  Accompanied by 5 enthusiastic photo amateurs who had booked a place to come along on one of FairMail’s photography trips.

The destination of the trip was the “Lost Empire of the Chachapoyas”, a beautiful area in the North East of Peru where the Chachapoyas civilization reined until 500 years ago. They were one of the few civilizations not to be conquered by the Inca’s. In this area you can find the second highest waterfall of the world, a bigger, older and higher lost city then the famous Machu Picchu in the South and over 60 mummies from high placed officials.

FairMail Photography Trip to Chachapoyas

All in all a beautiful area to take pictures together. Of the nature, the local people and of the teenagers’ ideas for new fair trade greeting cards of course! You can watch the photos of the trip on FairMail’s Facebook page or you can watch the video of an earlier trip to Chachapoyas here.

Are you curious to find out travelling with FairMail is an option for your next holiday? Then register for our next Information Session about our photography trips.

FairMail photography trip: Travelling with the locals

Did you ever dream about visiting Peru one day, but want to stay away from the “gringo trail” and mass tourism? Then why not travel with a fun group of locals: The FairMail teenagers?

Helping the FairMail teenagers with their fair trade pictures

Twice a year FairMail organizes photography trips to “off the beaten track destinations” so the teenagers can be inspired to take pictures in new places. Per trip we invite 5 foreigners to join us.

Feeding our group with positive energy, sharing a passion for photography, fair trade or slow tourism and willing to help the teenagers shoot pictures for their fair trade greeting cards that will actually sell to customers in the countries where the travelers come from. A unique travel set-up, that’s for sure.

Travelling to beautiful off-the-beaten track destinations

For those interested to find out if a FairMail photography trip fits them we are organizing and information session on Saturday the 30th of April at 15.00 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. If you would like to join us please contact us for more details.

Do have a look at the video below of our latest trip into the Peruvian cloud forest to see what our photography trips are all about:

Urville and Diana taking pictures together on the market.

“A unique opportunity to practise your hobby at the most fantastic locations, together with special people while being able to share your personal knowledge and experience with the most special people of all: the FairMail teenagers.” is how past participant Roel from the Netherlands describes his experience travelling with the Peruvian FairMail teenagers last month.

His fellow traveller Urville adds: “During the trip I enjoyed the places we visited, the food, the local inhabitants, the weather but most of all the interactions within the FairMail group. We really had so much fun together. It was great to see how motivated, enthusiastic and eager the FairMail teenagers go about with their cameras.”

To find out if FairMail’s photography trips would be just as much fun for you as they were for Urville and Roel, we are organizing an information session on Saturday the 10th of October 2015 from 15.00 to 17.00 in Amsterdam. If you are interested contact us here.

Check out some of Urville and Roel’s pictures of their trip with FairMail here.

Or watch the video of January’s trip here: