Journey through food.

Araki Nobuyoshi. Japanese photographer and contemporary artist. He published a book, The Banquet, focusing on his wife’s sickness and death from uterine cancer. This book documents the food that Araki and his wife ate together in the months before her death, and it is divided into color and black-and-white sections. From Parr and Badger, The Photobook: A History Vol. I: “The effect of each section is therefore quite different—the color is lucid, clinical, slightly repellent, the monochrome softer, more diffuse, the food less easily identified. The obvious metaphor is to suggest that the color was leaving Araki’s world, but his intentions are not quite so simple. The retreat from color is a retreat from realism to romanticism, where what were clearly images of food now become images of matter, like micro-photography, echoing the viral landscapes of the cancer that was destroying his wife.”

Source: AbeBooks

Interesting expression of a journey. Reminds me of how I sometimes take photos of dishes I cook, when I’ve tried to cook something new. Would have been interesting if I had photos everyday as well, but I dug up my photos and only found about 8.