Do you know what the world eats? or how? The answer lies in an exhibition held at the Nobel Prize Center in Oslo. Hungry Planet (27.09.2013 - 23.02.2014) is the joint work of photographer Peter Menzel and writer Faith D'Aluisio. Together, they travelled the world and asked families from various backgrounds to show them what they ate within a week. As a result, we see each family assembled in their kitchen, dining room, or tent, surrounded by their weekly supplies. The latter widely vary, depending on where in the world the family lives. Unsurprisingly, there are those who live on 1$ a week and those who need as much as 700$ to fill their stomach. However, more money doesn't necessarily mean having access to a better diet. I found that some of the European families pictured could do with a bit more vegetables and fruits instead of tons of carbs and sweets. The reportage also highlights the global importance of sharing meal as part of a social ritual, a way of interacting within a family or a community. By doing so, it shows a variety of cultural and culinary habits. Families from Ecuador, Turkey, Bhutan, France, Norway...all are brought together by a common trait: no matter their social, ethnic, religious origin, people all need food to survive - and acquiring food as well as sharing it convey a form of social interaction. By showing what the world eats, this exhibition raises a number of questions: why do we eat what we eat? Why does it differ from one country, one culture, one family to another? Also, in the age of massive consumption, how are we provided with what we eat and how do we decide what we put in our plates - when given the choice?
This photojournalism reportage has been published (and awarded) under the name of Hungry Planet: What The World Eats (Material World Books, Ten Speed Press, 2005).
Outside the venue, "what the world eats" becomes "how the world gets its food" with a couple of square meters of grass showed the land needed to produce various products such as a hamburger (5m²), a litre of milk (1m²) or a piece of butter (20m²).
This photojournalism reportage has been published (and awarded) under the name of Hungry Planet: What The World Eats (Material World Books, Ten Speed Press, 2005).
Outside the venue, "what the world eats" becomes "how the world gets its food" with a couple of square meters of grass showed the land needed to produce various products such as a hamburger (5m²), a litre of milk (1m²) or a piece of butter (20m²).
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