Kyle Bombard, co-owner of Reef Realty, is one of three brothers who grew up on Santa Catalina Island in California then moved to Nosara, Costa Rica. There was no professional fire department in Santa Catalina, so everyone in the town would help to fight fires. Bombard says the biggest issue they face in Nosara is proper safety equipment, he cites a recent fire at the dump which had fire fighters breathing in fumes from burning plastic, silicone and other materials for close to 12 hours, with little to protect them except scarves or dust masks. Currently the volunteers supply their own gear and vehicles.
Client work for Carleton University’s monthly newsletter, Carleton Now! This was for a profile on a prof and his research at the Sprott School of Business.
Ayana de Vos is a German filmaker. She is currently working on a film about recycling in Central America and is centring much of it around the construction of a new recycling centre in Nosara, Costa Rica.
Wilberth Roman, the Manager of the coffee co-op Coopepilangosta, stands in front of the co-op gate with a juvenile coffee plant on June 8. The co-op is located in Hojancha in the canton of Nicoya in Costa Rica and produces both organic and non-organic fair-trade coffee. The gate behind him reads, ‘Benefit Matambu’ and is an homage to the indigenous Matambu whose land the co-op is on.
The former head of Statistics Canada, Munir Sheik, who resigned after the government scrapped the long-form census, poses for a portrait in his basement in Ottawa. Mr. Sheik was about to begin a contract as a professor at Carelton University’s school of political science.
Adam Dietrich Photography 