Super excited to be one of the 3 finalist OpenWalls photographers who will exhibit our work as part of a month-long group show ‘Home & Away’ @galeriehuitarles throughout July @rencontresarles 50th addition ✨ @bjp1854 💥💥 ‘Whole Skinny Chicken’ *** “I am not going to give you Natalia’s recipe for borscht. If you are poor in the town of Cherkassy, your winter diet is based on bread, things grown underground, and fat in whatever form you can get it. If you are also an awful cook... it’s bleaker still. Natalia’s borscht was made with a whole skinny chicken which she didn’t bother to cut up, the usual root veg, way too much water, (it’s free) and...you know how some people keep a jar to put their old fat and oil in so it doesn’t clog the pipes? Hers was old, rancid and went into the borscht. I suspect that if given free access to abundant and high quality raw ingredients Natalia would still be an awful cook so I’m giving you my recipe instead.” *** A Carp in the Tub “If you want to take a bath, do it today; I’m bringing the carp tomorrow and it lives in the tub till Easter,” said Natalia helpfully. WAIT. Easter is three months away. A Carp in the Tub is an artist collaboration by Food Stylist Victoria Granof, Photographer Louise Hagger and Prop Stylist JoJo Li. In words, pictures and recipes, it tells the weird and wonderful story of Granof's winter-long journey to adopt her infant son in Ukraine.
The work is presented as a set: a folded poster and a booklet. Inside the booklet are a suite of seven photographs with corresponding recipes, and a not funny-but funny essay written by Granof. The poster unfolds into an A3 size to reveal the carp in the tub. *** . . . . #foodphotography @assocphoto @f22aop @equallens @rarebytrayler #rarebrag #stilllifephotography #ACarpintheTub #selfpublish #artistbook #foodart #foodieodicals #print #selfpublished #art #adoption #womeninphotography #dreamscometrue #printisnotdead #thephotographersgallery #recipes #homemade #home #family #kitchen #memories #1854Awards #GalerieHuitArles #HomesndAway #LesRencontresdArles #OpenWalls #finalist #wholeskinnychicken #stilllifephotography (at Galerie Huit Arles) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxu9HLAnQ2x/?igshid=1l1fi6zdujub4